September 2, 2001

7:26 PM

YETI@Home  is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the search for giant ape-like creatures.
posted by quonsar (5 comments total)

Coming Soon! Download Version 1.00 of YETI@Home for: Windows, BeOs, OS2, Linux, Amiga Workbench, Atari ST, Altair, TRS-80, Vectrex, Babbage's Difference Engine, Palm Pilot, Sega Genesis and Timex Indiglo (sorry, not available for Macintosh).

Good thing they support the Difference Engine, because they're neglecting to write a version for my Commodore VIC-20 (purchased in Southern California for $99 at a Gemco).
posted by eyeballkid at 7:36 PM on September 2, 2001

Not to mention the wireless version for wap enabled binoculars.. Only one problem: The binoculars are even rarer than the Yeti's.
posted by Kino at 9:04 PM on September 2, 2001

$99!
posted by Marquis at 10:55 PM on September 2, 2001

sparklingly unblighted by the wrath of nicotine stains too by the looks of things. are you a collector eyeballkid?.. or do emulators just like.. not crank your motor?
posted by Kino at 11:50 PM on September 2, 2001

This sounds like one of those things that once you come up with the name, you have to go through with it and see what it looks like fully realized, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, for example, or Dread Zeppelin or something.

(My first computer was a PET, so for a while there I got the exquisite pleasure of looking down my nose at the VIC-20 users. Until, of course, they all got sick of my taunting, and, y'know, beat me up.)
posted by chicobangs at 2:17 AM on September 3, 2001