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Trojan Room Coffee Pot Auctioned Off

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the its-a-sad-day dept.

dlesko writes "The historic Trojan Room coffee pot at The University of Cambridge has gone to the highest bidder on ebay for £3,350.00 (that's about $5,055.20 USD based on the currency rates as of 8/12/01). You can see the results for about 90days. Now they just have to hope that the person actually comes through with the dough..." A fitting end to a net.legend. If I could figure out where Arial, my old DEC Alpha Multia that was the original Slashdot, I would auction that off and give the cash to the EFF (minus shipping a cost of a case of beer ;) Dave? Rosie? Where did that thing go? I know it was finally retired as the SMTP server... I probably should get it back someday ;)

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  1. FYI: Trojan Coffee Pot comic by Snaggy · · Score: 2, Interesting


    In case you missed it, here's our Joy of Tech comic about the retiring of the coffee pot...

    heh... "My HELL as CoffeeCam SLAVE" ....and now it's just been sold off like a piece of property. ;)

  2. Re:The cash will come through by Dicky · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Anyone remember the secret fishcam url/key combo?

    ctrl-alt-f
    And it still works in the 0.9.3 (ish - home-built from CVS) version of Mozilla I'm running. It looks like the picture is stuck about 5 weeks out of date - is this a sign that the fishcam is dead?

    SAY IT AIN'T SO!

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    Paranoia isn't an infectious condition, it's a way of life
  3. Coffeemachine will be back online .. by ElektroHolunder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For all you out there not capable of reading German: SPIEGEL Online promised to bring it back online in a few weeks - so they did in fact save it for the people.. EH

  4. 5,000 divided by 14 geeks sans sales tax... by boboroshi · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Really, more power to them for makin that kind of money on a COFFEE POT. The event and the history of it is far more interesting that the actual item itself. Why put it in a museum?

    Museums are already overflowing. The Smithsonian has more things in storage that on display to a ratio of 10:1 in certain departments. Why add to that? and why with a coffeepot?

    The internet is a transient being. It is a constantly changing landscape whose historians are the users on it. The CoffeePot website will serve as more than an adequate reminder and is accesible to all people at all times (well, sans the government moderated internets in the far east). Placing this in a museum would be simply a waste of space.

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    // john athayde
    # x@boboroshi.com
    # http://www.boboroshi.com/
  5. Original Slash Dot Box by Alien54 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    So what would people do with it, assumming that it is found, and put up for action? A nice touch would be to have an original early version of the slash code on it that you ran, with maybe the first 100 messages, just for good historical sentimentality.

    I can seem someone doing this to it (as seen here).

    Just to take out a few frustrations

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    "It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"