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		rachelbythebay on Jan 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I made a site that rings a bell every tim... This reminded me of the Netscape FTP server rigging. They had an Indy play a cannon shot every time someone successfully finished a download. It's a small part of a much bigger story, and all of it is good as far as I am concerned. http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html

sneak on Jan 28, 2012 [–]

Interesting looking back on the truthiness of "pushing bits around in ways only meaningful to other nerds", then-and-now.

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