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- The Telegarden (1995-2004) was an art installation that allowed web users to view and interact with a remote physical garden via an industrial robot arm, enabling members to plant, water, and monitor seedlings.
- Developed at USC and launched in June 1995, it gained over 9,000 members in its first year; it moved to the Ars Electronica Center in Austria in 1996 and operated until 2004.
- The project fostered a global virtual community, with access granted to those who shared email addresses, and was praised as a metaphor for social ecology and the commons.