The lightbulb that's been burning for almost 110 years

>"Since then, with the exception of a brief period in 1903, a week or so in 1937 and some power outages between then and 1976, the light has been on."

Honestly, if they had said this bulb had managed to be on all of that time, I might see making a big deal out of it. But 110 years minus an entire week and several outages is like giving someone an award for perfect attendance who only called in sick 12 times.

I don't think the award is for perfect attendance. I think the award is for showing up for work for one hundred and ten freakin years.

The bulb itself isn't the only ancient thing; take a look at its website http://www.centennialbulb.org/

Animated GIFs, counters... it's like I'm back in 1996 all over again.

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Sorry, but I couldn't resist.

Looks like it was created with Adobe PageMill 3.0...which was discontinued 11 years ago.

It also has a Java applet for the 110 year countdown!

Hey this is like 10 minutes from me! Not sure that it belongs on HN though...

Something tells me someone has turned this off and back on when noone was watching

This would just decrease life time even further (compared to letting it run all the time).