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This is Twig. This week in Google. Episode 800 recorded for Christmas Day, 2024. The best of 2024.

Hello, everybody. I'm Leo Leport. We've given Paris and Jeff the week off. But believe me, we have lots of great content from the year gone by.

It's a look back at 2024 on this special episode of this week in Google.

We'll start off with Jeff with an interesting proposition.

So I like your idea. Tell us what your idea. So Bell Labs in Murray Hill with

the famous Bell Labs where so much occurred is is closing. The Bell Labs and now owned by Nokia

or whatever was left of it is moving to a new facility in new brunswick by rutgers whole modern

so the old bell labs which is this phenomenal building in murray hill and phenomenal grounds

is going to be empty and i'm proposing that it be turned into a museum and school of the internet

brilliant you think about it why there the internet wouldn't be possible without so much that was

forged at Bell Labs.

Transistor, laser, information theory, Unix, communication satellites, fiber optics, advances in chip design, cellular phones, compression, microphones, talkies, the first digital art artificial intelligence.

You wouldn't have an internet with so much of what was done at Bell Labs.

Unix for crying out loud. Yeah. The C programming language both came out at Bell Labs.

Yeah. So there's a computer history museum in Silicon Valley. There is a television museum in the Paley Center in New York and the museum of the movie and image in New York.

Glenn and I well know that Massachusetts, I gave a plug to him in this, Glenn, has a museum of

printing.

Online, there are, you know, amusing artifacts online, but I think it's important that we have

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