Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

An Email Mixup Led To A Very Strange Welsh Road Sign

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This week in 2008, local officials in Swanzey tried to get English-to-Welsh translation for a road sign they wanted to put up. They got a Welsh sentence in response, but it wasn't what they thought. Plus: today in 1969, the first network message on ARPANET goes through, though without a few key letters.  The man responsible for the most infamously bad Welsh road sign translation (Wales Online) E-mail error ends up on road sign (BBC) 5 milestones that created the internet 50 years after the first network message (The World) All signs point to our Patreon backers being amazing --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/support