Swatch Beatnik controversy
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Originally posted at http://www.ryan.thiessen.com/swatch/newsapr99/07news_02.htm which is no longer available.
By Ryan J Thiessen for @News Byte
Well, I am not sure if you have heard of this yet... but Swatch is trying to promote their watches in a new way. They want to send a satellite into space and send messages back to Earth about the new internet time. And this is causing quite a stir amongst amateur radio operators, who view the effort as advertising and spam. Check out the article in Wired.
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