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The Home as a Node on the Internet

Posted by Roblimo on from the no-need-to-ever-go-offline dept.

Humility writes "EETimes, a weekly trade magzine for electrical engineers, has a story about the integration of networked computers into domestic residences and artwork. This is a little more far reaching than just wiring up your home with a bunch of MP3 players and speakers. I think it's quite interesting." Fully networked houses on display at The Museum of Modern Art. Sweet! I wonder if this guy's place qualifies? It should.

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  1. "No internet in 88"? by Tom+Christiansen · · Score: 5
    "At the time, there was no Internet, the term '24/7' had yet to be coined and it was unheard of to get proprietary information from the client's employer - an investment bank - piped into the home," Daniel Rowen, who designed the apartment with fellow architect Frank Lupo, told EE Times.
    No internet in 88, eh? I suppose Bill Gates and Al Gore hadn't invented it yet.

    Sigh.

    I wonder what that thing I've been on since the very early 80s really is? I'd swear that it was the internet. Has the media truly forgotten where this all came from?

    And by 1988, I certainly had internet from home, including a private link into my employer's inner sanctum of customer and engineering data. And I from there was able to tap into our clients' own private systems as needed when I was doing customer service. Now, it wasn't the clients' business info we were getting, but still.

    Has the mass media ever gotten anything right?