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Prochain arrê: Gare du Bork! French capital city train does the tech can-can
BORK!BORK!BORK! Good news from the Paris Metro. To show off the nation's technological prowess, Parisian techies have eschewed such fripperies as advertisements and transit information in favor of a good, old-fashioned directory browser.Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader "DJ Finsletown," the screen adorned a carriage of Line 11 at the Chatêlet terminus earlier in June. It looks to us as though a web server threw a bit of a wobbly and showed users its undercarriage.Then again, France did give us the can-can dance, in which participants perform high kicks that reveal their underwear, so perhaps this is simply the tech version of the music hall standard.
A web server on a Paris train
Our reader pondered whether the system behind the scenes was struggling with a recent heatwave, or the borkage was the result of some over-exuberance by football fans following PSG's recent Champion's League final victory.
