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benjojo posted 20 Nov 2025 13:19 +0000

The UK IPv6 Council meeting was held at BT (London) Tower the other day, and seemingly as part of the deal of hosting something at BT Tower is that your stuff gets put on the mini scrolling jumbotron.

I wonder how many people looked up and thought "wtf is IPv6 and this URL?"

A large tower in the distance, that says IPv6.org.uk and "IPv6"

purpleidea@mastodon... replied 20 Nov 2025 13:25 +0000
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@benjojo obligatory "Jumbotron" is a registered mark of Sony corporation. You may mean "electronic display" or scoreboard.

benjojo replied 20 Nov 2025 16:38 +0000
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@purpleidea ah yes but you see, the more we use trademarks to mean a generic form, the more it weakens the trademark :)

funcrunch@me.dm replied 20 Nov 2025 16:37 +0000
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@benjojo

I was intrigued and just skimmed the Wikipedia page for the BT Tower, upon which I learned that it displayed a Windows error message for a whole day in April 2019 😄

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-04-08/technical-glitch-leads-to-iconic-london-tower-displaying-error-message

benjojo replied 20 Nov 2025 16:37 +0000
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@funcrunch Incredible, Exactly on brand

benjojo replied 20 Nov 2025 13:24 +0000
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To be fair, as a London of 10+ years I don't think I have ever paid attention to the BT tower jumbo-tron until that day, so I suspect only a scale of 10-99 outside of the event itself actually noticed the thing

joshbal4@m.fa.gl replied 20 Nov 2025 14:07 +0000
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covid

@benjojo aha yeah I think I only paid attention to it when it was the covid warning message

„control the virus“ black on yellow warning message scrolling around the bt tower sat behind a regents park

benjojo replied 20 Nov 2025 14:55 +0000
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re: covid

@joshbal4 that's a great image! Love the vibe/story it tells

tmcfarlane@toot.comm.. replied 20 Nov 2025 13:28 +0000
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@benjojo when my dad did his apprenticeship with BT he worked on dishes on the outside of that tower, and the tower at Crystal Palace.

WiteWulf@cyberplace... replied 20 Nov 2025 13:25 +0000
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@benjojo needs moar kittens 😀

altf4@hostux.social replied 20 Nov 2025 14:59 +0000
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@benjojo I mean, during the last IPv6 council in Belgium (Orange BE wasn’t part of it), Orange BE hosted another event next door. They asked us what IPv6 was when we ran into them 🙃