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I just found the email below from March 27, 2001. I love the bit about the convergence cable: Thank you for ordering the :CueCat Kit.! Your free :CRQ software and :CueCat will arrive shortly. Your :CueCat Kit also includes a Convergence Cable so your TV can talk to your computer.

As far as advertising is concerned, you would be surprised at the things that most companies would come up with to get attention and this one is really something that is similar to them. This new print-ad gimmick is for readers to take camera phone pictures of icons and ads and send them to a certain number.

Was connecting the physical world to the Net a dumb idea, or the CueCat device? When barcodes can be scanned using a camera phone (Physical World Connection), billions of URLS get added to the Internet database, hundreds of billions of physical objects become become "physical websites".