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I remember the MBONE. I was working at a National Lab, and had an SGI Indy workstation with an IndyCam, so I spent some time setting it up.

One day I forgot to close the app when I left for the day, and came back the following day to a NastyGram from Van Jacobson, chastising me for using up bandwidth with an image of my darkened office door for 16 hours.

Good times.

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I had a similar circumstance and the same rig with my Indy and for fun left it pointed at a Triops tank I'd set up .. people thought it was just an empty tank of water, until a week later there were epic fights between the banana shrimps and the triops babies...

Good times, until I got kicked off MBONE and ended up on CuSeeMe instead .. ;)

I was working on streaming video in QuickTime at Apple, made approximately the same mistake, and got a nastygram from Van as well.

Now I wish I’d kept it.

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