Why is Google in love with Bletchley Park ? (fwd)

16 November 2011

Why is Google in love with Bletchley Park ?
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By Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News

Technology giant Google normally has its eyes fixed firmly on the future. 
But it has turned its attention to an old house in England to help 
preserve a slice of computing history.

For nearly half a century after World War II, a Victorian manor house in 
Buckinghamshire lay neglected and unloved, its dilapidated buildings 
falling into disrepair.

By the early 90s, plans even emerged to tear down the assorted boarded-up 
huts around the house and erect a supermarket in their place.

For reasons of national security, a veil of secrecy shrouded Bletchley 
Park. Only in the last 20 years has the extraordinary story of breaking 
the code of the German Enigma machine finally become well-known...../snip/


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15739984