Post #2894926
2026-01-28 10:33 UTC
@cato@chaosfurs.social @pheeef@chaos.social Gather around me, kids, I have an interesting story from the stone age of IT: German fair CeBIT around 2005. The mobile carrier O2 had an extremely cool booth with a roof that consisted of what I remember as being ~200sqm of acrylic columns, each rgb lit. It was, in fact, a VGA display and while setting it up, I got to see what was most likely the world's biggest Windows XP error message at the time.I'll need to try and find a picture of that booth, it was extremely impressive.
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@cato@chaosfurs.social 2026-01-28 10:37
@christopherkunz@chaos.social @pheeef@chaos.social that sounds awesome! :D
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@christopherkunz@chaos.social 2026-01-28 10:38
@cato@chaosfurs.social @pheeef@chaos.social It was 2007, here's an article with pictures of the booth: https://www.schmidhuber.de/o2_cebit-2007/
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@Joris@hostux.social 2026-01-28 10:47
@christopherkunz@chaos.social reminds me of when the sky crashed. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/65t3se/an_electronic_billboard_had_an_error_at_night_and/ @cato@chaosfurs.social @pheeef@chaos.social But yeah, those new Yutong busses in Utrecht city are apparently riddled with bugs/teething problems...