The Aftermath Math
A few stats on my Apple //c unboxing set on Flickr. The story got 4,490 diggs, links from 286 blogs including Boing Boing, Boing Boing Gadgets, Telegraph, Laughing Squid, and Gizmodo, and prompted interviews on MacBreak Weekly, RetroMacCast (recording this weekend), and Inside Mac Radio (recording live this afternoon at 1:40pm Eastern, broadcast on 1220 AM KNTS in San Jose and San Francisco, or available as a podcast).
Most people think it's absurd to spend this much on a twenty-year-old computer, but this has been so much fun. Averaged out, I've spent less than a penny for each of the 348,201 (and counting) people who have viewed the photo set. Reading how a set of 5¼" floppy disks sent chills down someone's spine, or how the rainbow-colored Apple logo brought a tear to someone's eye, or how a simple screenshot triggered flashbacks of six years of term papers... it just floors me.
Now, if the damned blank 5¼" floppies I bought off of Ebay would get here, I could actually start using the computer. :)
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