Trojan Room Coffee Pot Auctioned Off

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday August 12, 2001 @02:24AM 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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Damn... by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · 2001-08-12 03:34 · Score: 5, Funny

If I'd known it would be worth that much, I'd have nicked it when I was working in the lab...

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Re:The creation of a false geek culture by dstone · 2001-08-12 03:58 · Score: 5, Insightful

[long, critical fetishistic analysis of the coffee pot snipped]

Whoa. Chill. Sometimes a coffee pot is just a coffee pot.
Re:The cash will come through by Dicky · 2001-08-12 02:57 · 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 It looks like the picture is stuck about 5 weeks out of date - is this a sign that the fishcam is dead?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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