Tuesday, October 25, 2005


New device detected: Boeing 747: "


Once again,

airplane manufacturers have been giving serious consideration to
offering Internet access in the skies
.
Back in 1994, Boeing considered equipping each seat
with a serial modem.
Laptop users could hook up to the modem and dial out.
(Dial-up was the primary means of connecting to the Internet
back in those days.)


We chuckled at the though of attaching the serial cable
and getting a Plug-and-Play pop-up message:


New device detected: Boeing 747
"



(Via The Old New Thing.)


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