Maximinus - Bronze/Silver Tetradrachm from RANDOM.ORG web site
Mads Haahr from the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin has since 1988 run RANDOM.ORG, a site providing anyone on the Internet with a source of true random numbers, generated from atmospheric noise via a radio receiver rather than "pseudo-randomly" by a computer algorithm. The earliest version of the generator is shown below - there is a reason for the bottles - and if this kind of thing interests you, you can find out more on the site's history page. From the site you can do things like flip coins (with a classy selection of coins from which to choose), roll dice, and generate random numbers for several different state lotteries.
Version 1 of RANDOM.ORG, 1998-2001
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