The World's First Internet Bench

In the Abbey Gardens of Bury St Edmunds, in a quiet corner of a park, sits the World's First Internet Bench. Well, sort of. It's been nearly twenty years, and it's arguable whether it ever did the job in the first place...

Edited by Michelle Martin, https://twitter.com/mrsmmartin

SOURCES:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1475654.stm
https://www.theregister.com/2001/08/10/vandals_and_phreakers_plague_msn/

Archive images courtesy Andrew Parsons / PA Archive / PA Images, used under license.

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