Next time you're walking down a city sidewalk, look out for the Internet.
It's all around you -- and not just in the phone lines and cables running under the streets or in the airborne Wi-Fi streams. In recent months, several services have sprung up to allow a communion of the real world with the Internet, with cell phones acting as the medium.
If you send a text message to an e-mail address scrawled in paint on a subway advertisement or on a sidewalk, for example, you could get some digital pop art on your phone in return.An adhesive arrow on a telephone pole could hold the key to the history of a nearby building.
One of the most popular of the new projects, Grafedia, translates seemingly ordinary urban graffiti into works of art. A piece of grafedia (multimedia graffiti) is either written as an e-mail address ending in "(at)grafedia.net," or in blue underlined text, mimicking the look of a hyperlink on a Web page.
Read the full article: CNN.com - New graffiti bridges worlds for cell user - Jun 14, 2005.
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