Where the world’s first transatlantic email was sent from
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Where the world’s first transatlantic email was sent from
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Re: Where the world’s first transatlantic email was sent from
#2Great geek news :) Did you know where it was first sent from?
Re: Where the world’s first transatlantic email was sent from
#3Great geek news :) Did you know where it was first sent from?
Very interesting. I need to add that to my list for a possible Volume 2 of The Geek Atlas.
Re: Where the world’s first transatlantic email was sent from
#4Short UK cultural digression:
The "blue plaque" mentioned is normally emplaced by National Heritage. They commemorate individuals rather than events, and the individual must have been dead for 20 years so that their significance can be judged with rather more objectivity than is likely to be gauged by their contemporaries: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1498
Of course there's nothing to prevent an individual or organization (the local council in the pictured plaque from the BBC's erstwhile "Radiolympia" building) from putting up their own blue plaque to historic events or living persons, but it's the exception rather than the norm and it's not a "tradition" as such.
Re: Where the world’s first transatlantic email was sent from
#5Short UK cultural digression: The "blue plaque" mentioned is normally emplaced by National Heritage. They commemorate individuals rather than events, and the individual must have been dead for 20 years so that their significance can be judged with rather more objectivity than is likely to be gauged by their contemporaries: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1498 Of course there's nothing to prevent an…
Spoke with English Heritage and found out that they only do plaques inside London, outside it is done by the local council.
And this would be under the exceptional circumstance of an important historical event.