The World's First Internet Bench
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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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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.
Filmed safely: see https://www.tomscott.com/safe/ for details
I'm at https://tomscott.com
on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott
on Facebook at https://facebook.com/tomscott
and on Instagram as tomscottgo
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