Internet For Sale

image Someone has placed the internet up for sale on eBay. The seller assures us that "This is serious. Comes with original certificate of authenticity." According to the picture accompanying the auction, the internet looks a bit like a shiny black ball. The certificate of authenticity, however, looks like it's been printed out on a home inkjet printer. If memory serves me, this joke about putting the internet up for sale has been done before, and yet the current seller has already made at least $27, so they're the one laughing all the way to the bank. (via Red Ferret Journal)

eBay Technology

Posted on Mon Jun 28, 2004


Comments

Looks like the auction may have been taken down. I clicked the link and it is no longer there. Hahaha...oh well.
Posted by Matthew  on  Mon Jun 28, 2004  at  09:38 PM
That didn't last long. Well, there wasn't much more to it than I described above.
Posted by The Curator  in  San Diego  on  Mon Jun 28, 2004  at  10:08 PM
There's no link because he sold that bit of the internet already...........

😛 😉
Posted by aw  on  Wed Jun 30, 2004  at  06:31 AM
I think I recognize that image. It appears to be a black and white version of one of the electronic eyes of the AI computer HAL 9000 from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by Stabley Kubric

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/

Here's one picture of HALs 'eye'. There are lots of others on-line.

Posted by old hat  on  Wed Apr 12, 2006  at  02:43 AM
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