does anyone remember....

[derajfast]

I think it was maybe 1999, where a bunch of online merchants sponsored this guys experiment where he stayed in a room for 1 year, with only a computer and a bathroom. And the goal was to buy everything he needed online, and get everythng delivered?

If anyone could provide more info, or link me to the story, I would be very appreciative.

 

[Abstract]

No, because that does sound easy.

Ever hear of the guy in Japan who was given nothing but a bathroom and a bunch of magazines, and he had to figure out how to survive for an entire year with just that?

Then mid-show, once things started to pick up for him (he figured out how to survive ), he woke up one morning to find that the creators of the show tried to spice things up by introducing a goat or ram or something into the guy's room, and he spent a lot of time hiding and avoiding it!

 

[iSaint]

I remember that, but no online search I do finds the story. I would think you have to do some sort of archive search to find it.

 

[SamIchi]

No, because that does sound easy.

Ever hear of the guy in Japan who was given nothing but a bathroom and a bunch of magazines, and he had to figure out how to survive for an entire year with just that?

Then mid-show, once things started to pick up for him (he figured out how to survive ), he woke up one morning to find that the creators of the show tried to spice things up by introducing a goat or ram or something into the guy's room, and he spent a lot of time hiding and avoiding it!

XD Those crazy japanese. I wanna visit Japan.

 

[Shamus]

No, because that does sound easy.

Ever hear of the guy in Japan who was given nothing but a bathroom and a bunch of magazines, and he had to figure out how to survive for an entire year with just that?

Then mid-show, once things started to pick up for him (he figured out how to survive ), he woke up one morning to find that the creators of the show tried to spice things up by introducing a goat or ram or something into the guy's room, and he spent a lot of time hiding and avoiding it!

Hehe, thats Japanese "reality" TV for you

 

[Lyle]

I think it was maybe 1999, where a bunch of online merchants sponsored this guys experiment where he stayed in a room for 1 year, with only a computer and a bathroom. And the goal was to buy everything he needed online, and get everythng delivered?

If anyone could provide more info, or link me to the story, I would be very appreciative.

I remember that vaguely, but no real details are coming to mind. Like iSaint suggested, you might want to search some major newspapers' and magazines' archives. This sounds like something that Wired might have covered, for example.

 

[nbs2]

No, because that does sound easy.

Short of emailing your friends, I'm not sure it would have been so easy. Maybe I am getting the launches mixed up, but I don't think the grocery delivery services were up, nor were very many other food delivery programs going. But, I could be getting launches off by a couple of years...

 

[jsw]

I remember it, and, as I recall, he changed his name as well. Sorry, but details don't come to mind.