what if strangers could print to my printer?

190 prints · 42 countries · 3 days

every print, from every corner of the internet

then strangers started sending things

42 countries. 6 continents.

🇺🇸 US 251 views🇮🇳 India 106 views🇵🇱 Poland 45 views🇫🇷 France 39 views🇬🇧 UK 25 views🇦🇺 Australia 20 views

and 36 more countries

reddit had opinions

r/midlyinteresting

“I connected my printer to the internet and strangers are sending things to it”

53K views316 upvotes48 comments
r/WhatShouldIDoWithIt

“I built a website that lets strangers print messages on my printer now”

8.2K views26 upvotes32 comments

how it worked

🌐your browser
☁️vercel (cloud)
💻my mac polls
🖨️printer goes brrr

no ports open. my mac polls the cloud. outbound only.

the internet is weird.

but mostly, it's kind.

190 strangers from 42 countries sent things to a printer in india. most of them were memes and dog photos. a few were beautiful. one was too cursed to show.

thanks for printing with me.