The most interesting thing to me is the timing: this opened just one month after 9/11, the event that ushered in a new era of state-sanctioned surveillance.
Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC (2013)
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#42Very cool. I wish I could have visited. I miss wacky theme bars like this. One of my favorite theme bars was a place in Mexico City called "Bang Bang" (closed down years ago). It was Stanley Kubrick themed. There were little black and white TVs everywhere playing weird stuff. Then in the back was a replica 2001: A Space Odyssey bedroom; from the end of the movie. With a glowing white floor. Many people would pile int…
There are still some. In Milwaukee, and now Chicago, there's a spy-themed bar called The Safehouse. The Milwaukee one has survived for decades, and they're still regarded as pretty cool.
Re: Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC (2013)
#43Probably got demolished and turned into a bank or a Verizon store.
Probably not a bank. Banks are getting rid of physical service, not expanding it.
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#44There is a misplaced apostrophe in the title.
I'm curious -- why the downvotes? Does someone think I'm incorrect? The title here, to me, reads "Way ahead of it is time: The Remote Lounge NYC." I had to think about for a bit before I realized what was going on. I just thought someone might want to correct it. Edit: I see it's wrong in the original, so we just keep it, I suppose.
Looks like the title of this post has been fixed.
People downvote facts here, and persecute you for providing corrections that are helpful to everyone. It's infantile and depressing.
They need to stop and think: How do people learn? Often from reading. Where do people do most of their reading now? Online. So when you attack people who correct incorrect writing online, you're attacking people who want to learn. Most foreign-language speakers, for example, WANT to be corrected so they know how to speak and write the language.
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#45This submission comes from this comment from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854960
People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854061 (307 points, 1 day ago, 123 comments)
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#46I actually was the sole developer who wrote all the software that “networked” the custom hardware together. This project was so ahead of its time and yet required some rather arcane programming knowledge. So much fun though. AMA!
Do you have access to the source code / would you be willing to share it?
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#47I actually was the sole developer who wrote all the software that “networked” the custom hardware together. This project was so ahead of its time and yet required some rather arcane programming knowledge. So much fun though. AMA!
Do you have access to the source code / would you be willing to share it?
I don’t, but if I did I would!
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Cocktail Consoles (as we called them) were all custom hardware. Everything was designed to be rock-solid both physically (bars are full of drunk people and liquids) and operationally (everything had to Just Work). Leo designed a core “motherboard” which was a PIC microcontroller (I forget the exact model) that did five main things: serial I/O for the buttons and joystick; serial I/O for the attached TV tuner; ser…
All this was done in Manhattan itself?
Yep. 3rd and Bowery, before CBGB closed and the East Village went from the bohemian hipster world of RENT to the expensive place it is today. The Bowery had just barely changed from “don’t go there ever” to “oh, cool!”
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#49There's a really interesting movie called "We Live in Public" that documents one of the early tech pioneers Josh Harris as he sells his internet radio company and then creates an underground CCTV community. It's fascinating and equally frightening how people behaved towards one another while sharing space and constantly watching each other. It reminds me a lot the relationship many twitch streamers have with their vi…
The founders of Remote were in fact the technical team Josh Harris hired to create We Live in Public!
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#50Very cool. I wish I could have visited. I miss wacky theme bars like this. One of my favorite theme bars was a place in Mexico City called "Bang Bang" (closed down years ago). It was Stanley Kubrick themed. There were little black and white TVs everywhere playing weird stuff. Then in the back was a replica 2001: A Space Odyssey bedroom; from the end of the movie. With a glowing white floor. Many people would pile int…
Not too far from the Remote Lounge was a Clockwork Orange themed bar named Korova Milk Bar around the same time.
So many memories flooding back. We once had a party at Razorfish and I somehow got in touch with random downtown people who made weird alcohols. One of them was a woman who made legit absinthe from real wormwood back before absinthe was legal again, and the other one was a woman who made some sort of narcotic “milk” alcohol inspired by A Clockwork Orange. I’d be shocked if it wasn’t the same woman as this bar!