The companions tried their best to describe what they were trying to find, which was an extremely brittle radio. You know, the kind where you turn the dial and a hail of static blares between stations. The salesperson at the business was at a loss for words.
Mads Haahr remembers, “I think he thought we were quite crazy.” In 1997, he and his friends were snooping around Berkeley, California’s Radio Shack. The noise filters on the majority of the radios for sale eliminated the important crackles that listeners were seeking. However, after some convincing, the salesman consented to it.
coincidental,A wall of buzz emerged as they inserted two batteries into the little, grey, ten-dollar radio. It was quite loud. Haahr recounts, “We were jumping up and down.” They might be going to become wealthy with that little radio. Haahr had been developing gambling software with three of his buddies, aiming to host blackjack and virtual slot machines online. Online casinos had barely started to gain popularity at that time.
Haahr was aware that they would require the ability to produce random numbers with consistency. A never-ending stream of numbers would decide which virtual lever you pulled to open the slots or which cards were dealt in an online poker game. If these events weren’t coincidental,.
