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May Our Children Forgive Us

May Our Children Forgive Us

Electronic Voting Machines Hacked, Bender Bending Rodriguez Elected to School Board

by Eric Limer | 12:47 pm, March 2nd

Sure, widespread electronic voting would make the process of tallying and processing ballots exponentially easier, but can it ever really be secure? Maybe someday, but certainly not right now, as evidenced by a little experiment in Washington D.C. that ended with everyone’s favorite robo-sociopath Bender Bending Rodriguez being elected as the head of the Washington D.C. school board. Needless to say, there was a little bit of hacking involved.

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May Our Children Forgive Us

Re-Imagining The Modern Social Web for 1997

by Max Eddy | 12:00 pm, December 10th

The website Once Upon imagines a simpler time; a slower, more civilized age best viewed in Netscape Navigator 4.3 on a CRT monitor at 8 kB/s. In short, it imagines how current pillars of the Intnernet — Google+, Facebook, and YouTube — would look and function if they were made in 1997. The brainchild of Olia Lialina and  Dragan Espenschied, the site brings back the square dialog boxes and tables you hoped you’d never see again. It even claims to run at super-slow dialup speeds. The experience is so real, you can practically hear the modem screech.

Of course, if you’re too impatient to deal with the sites’ period appropriate speed restrictions, you can simply check out the screen shots after the break.

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Record Your Impression of a Modem Screech at Bleeoo

by Max Eddy | 1:17 pm, September 7th

With the rise of high-speed cable connections, dial-up modems have all but died out and the ancient practice of singing along to their strange songs has died with them. However, for those of us who lived through those dark days of the early Internet and still here the haunting screech of 56K modems in our dreams, the site Bleeoo has arrived.

Like a veritable Alan Lomax of the dial-up era, Bleeoo lets users record their impressions of modem screeches and publish them online for all to see. There’s only a few offerings thus far, and none of them sound like the rhythmic 56k wail that I remember, so clearly more people need to get involved. If you came of age playing MUDs or waiting 20min to download a 3mb file, it is your solemn duty to log on to Bleeoo and sing a modem screech. We cannot let this valuable piece of our culture die.

(via Bleeoo, original image via James & Mary Bilancini)

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