The last in my nostalgia series. I went to quite some congresses on Medical Informatics. At the exhibitions, you could get some gifts at the some of the stands. These anti-stress balls were given as presents. I don't know whether these anti-stress balls were used by their employees or by the users of their software π. Probably both. Origin was a dutch software development company between 1990 and 2000. In 2000 it was acquired by Atos. Lucent technologies existed between 1996 and 2006.