The World's First Internet Bench

Published on July 6, 2020
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! 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/

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