How can we appreciate bullet-quick SSDs and fiber networks without pausing - at the year's end - to appreciate where it all came from. We should think back to before the birth of modern computing, even before the telegraph, to a time when bits of data 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 more than makes up for in historical relevance.
Engadget, Hacker builds allegedly pointless data network out of Lego train set
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