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

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(Via The Old New Thing.)