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May 31, 2006

geekery

Mod your Mac: you’ve got mail!

Posted May. 31, ’06, 9:28 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Geekery

G4 MailboxEventually we’ll be able to replace our aging silver G4 and blue & white G3 towers with a brand-spanking new Intel Mac Pro (or whatever inane moniker they end up settling upon). But what to do with the old tower? Well, you could turn it into a file server, or perhaps blow it up. Sadly, they’re not quite suited to being turned into Macquariums (unless you fancy those deep sea fish that hate sunlight).

Or you could turn it into a mailbox. A real mailbox. Like the kind they put paper letters in? Let me explain: in the days—nay, years—before the advent of electronic mail, people used to get paper letters delivered to them from the very hands of dedicated government workers, who would trek through all sorts of weather, just to make sure their charges arrived on time, often bearing news from far off lands. Archaic, I know, but it served.

So I’m not sure if this Auckland, New Zealand resident was engaging in some sort of post-modernist artistic expression, or if he merely needed a new mailbox (do they even have the Internet down there?) for his valuable correspondence. Either way, I wonder if it still works…

[via Gizmodo]


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