[kristopolous]

I've fantasized about fax phone banks for artists to send things out periodically.

The idea of a machine unexpectedly popping out a sheet of paper has gone from "this is all spam" to delightful again.

Physical items in a physical space whereby you call a place and not a person.

We've digitally moved from spaces to individuals and I think that's the main critique of the modern web: somehow networked ourselves but abandoned the networking of ourselves.

You could even do it all digitally somehow and just hook it up to a modern network printer. Whitelisted senders get printed while unrecognized ones enter a digital backlog.

The real desire is to explore the psuedo anonymous nature of the early web in a way that is robust to abuse.

[wholinator2]

I think the key point that would make this delightful is the whitelist. Lord knows the moment its opened up it'll be spammed with the worst things bored teenagers can find.