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Hacker builds allegedly pointless data network out of Lego train set

How will we appreciate bullet-quick SSDs and fiber networks without pausing — on the year’s end — to realize where all of it came from? We should always think back to before the birth of modern computing , even before the telegraph , to a time when bits of information were forced to travel everywhere by train. A hacker named Maximilien has now recreated that locomotive golden era using Lego, Arduino and Linux, and what his system lacks in bandwidth it greater than makes up for in historical relevance. A USB flash secret is borne by miniature railway carriage from station to station, stopping at every one to unload or pickup information and thus creating its own barebones networking protocol. Click the source link to comprehend the entire museum piece.

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