The Telegarden

Here's a retro project. In 1995, a team of artists, technicians, and gardners built an installation at the ars electronica museum in austria that used a funky new technology called the "World Wide Web". The installation was titled, The Telegarden:

"The TeleGarden is an art installation that allows web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm."

(via Tom Igoe)