The Greatest Internet Moments
I featured The Greatest Internet Moments site back when I had like four of you as friends. So I'm talking about it again. I like to re-tell the same story over and over again, anyway. It's a fun trip down memory lane for those who have been on the intrwebs since the mid or late nineties, and it is a great intro to some fascinating phenomenons you might just have missed out on. I was surprised that even the person who out-geeks me with time on BBSes and MUDs said he hadn't heard of most of the featured items. So go waste a few hours.
Two of my best discoveries from the list:
The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia
I played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in high school, but I had no idea there was a computer science project dedicated to linkage! It was conceived and implemented in 1996 and remains at its original location.
(On a side note, my lifetime goal is to calculate my Erdos number. I'm not a mathematician, but the computer science stuff should cross over somewhere.)
Mojave phone booth
The Mojave phone booth was a 1960's era lone telephone booth in the Mojave National Preserve. A guy discovered there was a phone booth 15 miles off I-15 between Barstow and Vegas, miles from any buildings or real roads, alone in the desert. He called it for weeks and a local lady finally answered. So he made a website. And then the Park Service and Ma Bell shut it down in 2000, claiming there were environmental impact problems from all the visitors and callers to the lone phone booth.
There is going to to be a movie featuring the phone booth!
Two of my best discoveries from the list:
The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia
I played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in high school, but I had no idea there was a computer science project dedicated to linkage! It was conceived and implemented in 1996 and remains at its original location.
(On a side note, my lifetime goal is to calculate my Erdos number. I'm not a mathematician, but the computer science stuff should cross over somewhere.)
Mojave phone booth
The Mojave phone booth was a 1960's era lone telephone booth in the Mojave National Preserve. A guy discovered there was a phone booth 15 miles off I-15 between Barstow and Vegas, miles from any buildings or real roads, alone in the desert. He called it for weeks and a local lady finally answered. So he made a website. And then the Park Service and Ma Bell shut it down in 2000, claiming there were environmental impact problems from all the visitors and callers to the lone phone booth.
There is going to to be a movie featuring the phone booth!