New device detected: Boeing 747

Raymond Chen

Once again, airplane manufacturers have been giving serious consideration to offering Internet access in the skies. Back in 1994, Boeing considered equipping each seat with a serial modem. Laptop users could hook up to the modem and dial out. (Dial-up was the primary means of connecting to the Internet back in those days.)

We chuckled at the though of attaching the serial cable and getting a Plug-and-Play pop-up message:

New device detected: Boeing 747

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