The Prague Pneumatic Post system (early mechanical networking) (opens in new tab)

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18 pointsdgtized16y ago3 comments

3 comments

Oh so that's what that tube thing was in the Simpsons. And all this time I thought it was fake... ha ha ha. me so stupid.

anigbrowl16y ago

This would be more appropriately included in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757843

Absent that context, it's just taking up page space. Please reconsider.

scott_s16y ago

There's a long practice here for posting, on their own, submissions that are related to the discussion in another submission. I like this practice, because it gives the feeling of a meta-discussion across all of HN.

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