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> (At this point the researchers became somewhat concerned that the noise from the toaster would wake the neighbors and attract undue attention. However, we decided that we were already committed to the experiment and that the neighbors would be able to sacrifice some sleep in the name of science.) Problematic to conduct human research without any noted IRB approval.
Unfortunately it looks like it’s vanished sometime in the last 30 years.
This puts me in mind of the Twinkies experiments… in the 90s a couple of Rice students documented a series of experiments on the early web (I remember the “resistivity” test being especially entertaining). Unfortunately it looks like it’s vanished sometime in the last 30 years.
Thankfully this article uses GIF thumnails instead of the full sized images. Thanks to that, I was able to load the page very quickly with my 500 Mbps bandwidth.
There is a surprising amount of energy in food. It's also possible to make a thermic lance using materials such as spaghetti or bacon: https://hackaday.com/2011/02/11/thermic-lance-made-from-spag...
I think one of the first web pages I viewed was the "Fun with Grapes" page on my Windows 3.0 machine running Trumpet Winsock[0] (or maybe KA9Q[1] which I remember using around that time as well) and Netscape Navigator over my Demon Internet connection in 1994. Before this I had a Delphi account for about a year or so and life was entirely text based - yay Gopher! I still remember that initial fascination with being to click on links that would take me to other web sites.
And yes I did buy grapes to try to reproduce the pyrotechnics shown on that page, though less successfully due to my microwave not being very powerful.
One of many interesting articles from a time when "clickbait" had not been invented (although the title is itself somewhat attractive.) I can certainly imagine what it would look like if this article were written today. Last Updated: 2G August 1994 For a second I thought that was a 6, but it's actually a G . I wonder if there's any significance to that?
Thankfully this article uses GIF thumnails instead of the full sized images. Thanks to that, I was able to load the page very quickly with my 500 Mbps bandwidth.
I mean it's a webpage from 1994, it literally had to deal with internet speeds in the near baud range.