Een 26-jarige inwoner van Dallas, die zichzelf heeft omgedoopt tot 'DotComGuy', sluit zichzelf op om een jaar lang online te leven. Alle benodigde goederen moeten via internet shops z'n hut binnen komen. Om het feest ook voor ons internetters interessant te maken wordt het huis met webcams vol gehangen:
After locking himself inside the rented house Saturday, he added: “I’m going to come out being a loon.” The “live” part of the DotComGuy stunt involves 24-hour streaming video from dozens of digital cameras set up throughout the house. One camera points at the kitchen, several face the living room, and one even sits on a bathroom shelf — turned away from the toilet and bathtub. AdvertisementThe DotComGuy project, which sounds like a cross between the enviro-colonization experiment Biosphere and the film “EdTV,” has a few ground rules. Maddox can have visitors. He simply can’t go farther than the back yard.
“We certainly don’t recommend that people lock themselves away from the world, but we will prove that it can be done,” said Len Critcher, a friend of Maddox’s and president of DotComGuy Inc.
Maddox’s first monthly paycheck from the company will be $24, but it will double every month as an incentive to stay in the house, Critcher said.
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