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What was it called?

A few years ago, while there was still a dot-com bubble, there was a
company selling an internet appliance with a flat screen, which after
its release took about a day for someone to figure out how to get it
to run Linux. The company was selling them at a loss and making things
up in subscriptions, except that you didn’t need a subscription if
you were going to run Linux on it.


Anyone remember what they were called?


They weren’t href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3288">Netwinders,
which is the word that is stuck in my head preventing me from thinking
of the right one, and which are thin clients; this was a modem-based
all-in-one home internet appliance that by design could only use the
subscription service.

Comments 8

  1. maes wrote:

    I-Opener?

    Posted 29 Apr 2004 at 4:07 pm
  2. maes wrote:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51147&item=4127234112&rd=1

    Posted 29 Apr 2004 at 4:07 pm
  3. Rich wrote:

    Figures! As soon as I post, someone on IRC remembers — it was the i-opener, and it was less interesting than I remembered it being.

    Posted 29 Apr 2004 at 4:08 pm
  4. Rich wrote:

    You’re even faster than me reporting what someone told me before I had a chance to see if the post posted correctly.

    Also, hi! I don’t think I realized you were here.

    Posted 29 Apr 2004 at 4:09 pm
  5. euqsam wrote:

    I sold mine to a-mused, unopened…and I believe it’s STILL unopened, if you want one. :)

    Posted 29 Apr 2004 at 4:35 pm
  6. dagbrown wrote:

    the 3Com Audrey (buy one today)!

    Posted 29 Apr 2004 at 5:24 pm
  7. Rich wrote:

    I-unopener!

    Posted 30 Apr 2004 at 2:25 am
  8. anonymous wrote:

    nope, 3com Audrey ran a variant of QNX, although the folks over at Audrey Hacking have been putting together some custom images (including Linux I believe).

    Neat little device. Especially if you’ve got Mister House running somewhere.

    Posted 02 May 2004 at 5:34 pm