Her Majesty The Queen sent her first tweet today at the Science Museum in London. She was at the venue to open the new exhibition named "Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World."
The 88-year-old monarch typed the message: "It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R."
The rare and special tweet from the official @BritishMonarchy account has been retweeted 15 thousand times and marked as favorite 14 thousand times, within four hours after it was posted.
Her Majesty is a supporter of technology. For instance, she used radio to broadcast her dedication to the Commonwealth in 1947. She also allowed television cameras inside the Westminster Abbey for the first time in 1953 to cover her coronation. Her first televised Christmas broadcast was aired in 1957. She is also the first monarch to have sent an email back in 1976.
The "Information Age" section of the Science Museum features 200 years of technological innovation and, according to the museum's official website, is their "biggest and most ambitious gallery to date."
The gallery is composed of six zones, namely: The Cable, The Telephone Exchange, Broadcast, The Constellation, The Cell and The Web, and each zone shows gadgets and gizmos representing the technological breakthroughs from that era. There are over 800 items on display, including the computer used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, as the world's first web server.
The Science Museum was founded in 1857, and The Queen's first visit was in 1938 when she was 12.
