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Hello, Sean:

What do you want to show?  If you want to show network topology, you  
can use a switchboard type interactive.  I always wanted to try a  
multiple "telephone on a string" type exhibit, with several tin-can  
phones feeding into a central connection.  If you want to show  
internet kind of network stuff, then you can try something like a  
pachinko board to represent routers and packets.  There have been a  
number of exhibits about networked communications.  Networld in  
Chicago, the communications exhibition at the Tech, Ann Arbor did  
some things related to this, and we did an exhibition called  
Connections:The Nature of Networks about all kinds of networks, not  
so focused on computer networks.

Hope this helps.

Eric Siegel
New York Hall of Science
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On Feb 22, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Sean and Michelle Gaffaney wrote:

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> Sean
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