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LGR - Netpliance 🍕 i-Opener 🍕 (Patreon)
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Greetings! It's been quite a busy week. I returned from my Long Island convention trip on Sunday and immediately got back to work on the projects I left behind earlier in the month. This particular episode is one of those I was laying a bunch of groundwork on before the trip, with the goal being to get enough done beforehand to finish it in a few days once I got back. Thankfully it worked out.
The Netpliance i-Opener is a topic I've wanted to cover for years now! Although it's one that I've had so long that when I first got the thing in 2012, it wasn't yet "old enough" for a retrospective. I simply grabbed it while thrifting because it was something I remember reading about on Slashdot and various forums for its hackability. Well, eleven years have passed and the time has finally come for a video.
I've always found the brief era of internet appliances around the turn of the millennium to be a fascinating one, with all its associated billions of invested dollars and marketing hype going down the drain just about as quickly as it arrived. And the i-Opener is a great place to start on the topic, I think. I have a number of devices in this category for future coverage should this one go over well, but yeah: one appliance at a time.
And now it's back to the other two videos I left literally on the table the other week. One being a 1990s digital camera, it's been ages since I've done one of those so I hope you're in the mood for some ugly plastics and crunchy JPEGs. So till next time, have a good one and thank you for your support! And a big shoutout to all of you I met at LI Retro – it was a fantastic show in such a unique space, and I had lots of fun meeting up and hanging out. Y'all are awesome.
