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"MSN.co.uk working in partnership with Bury St. Edmunds presents the World's First Internet Bench for visitors to Abbey Gardens"

This is the famous 'Internet Bench', fitted with modem sockets enabling the sitter to connect a laptop to the internet and installed in the Abbey Gardens, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk on 6 August 2001, where it functioned sporadically, lived on as a gimmicky curiosity for a few years and finally became obsolete except as a thing to rest on while using a smartphone.

Or is it?

The surface of the bench looks a lot darker than in publicity pictures taken on the day of opening Link. Probably just a case of protective repainting. But wait. On more recent photos Link after mine was taken in 2012, the bench also has a different plaque, replacing the text quoted above with the following:

"This location marks the site of the world's first internet bench"

Suggesting it may not actually be the same bench (how long does any piece of wooden park furniture survive, with or without a protective coating?), and raising the question of whether the historic modem holes seen here, subject of so many physical and virtual pilgrimages, are mere replicas...