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Tower Bridge Exhibition self-describes with “A visit to Tower Bridge Exhibition clearly explains how the Bridge works and describes its fascinating history.”
Personally, I’d say that a bridge being cited at conferences about the future of how people and technology interact with objects around us, and that people over a period of a few years had unexpected and interesting conversations with and about the bridge, counts as ‘fascinating history’ and explaining day-to-day how the bridge works.
It seems so short-sighted that a museum has deleted all of this - all of the URLs pointing at this account are now broken. A genuinely interesting part of the bridge’s, and the internet’s history is now gone, whereas the opposite should have happened - this account should have been included in the museum’s activity. People enjoyed the account, it proved an interesting and funny way of humanising the day-to-day operations of the structure in a way that hadn’t been done before.
Because history doesn’t stop, we want our museums to be ‘backing up’ what’s happening around us, and that includes what’s going on online. The modern world is dominated by mobile phones, the web, devices everywhere, and when we look back in future years unless we’ve kept some of that stuff we are going to have a great big hole labelled 2011 “really interesting stuff happened around that time but nobody had the foresight to keep any of it.”
"— The loss of @towerbridge from a cultural point of view | Stef Lewandowski (via iamdanw)
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