For what it's worth "the Open era" is a reasonably well known term for followers of tennis... Though admittedly not for most other people. :)
Joe On Sunday, 18 October 2015, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, James! I can tweak that tweet as suggested. > > On Saturday, October 17, 2015, James Alexander <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Twitter @wikimedia: >>> The 1st webcam was hooked up to prevent pointless trips to coffee pot in >>> University of Cambridge computer lab. http://buff.ly/1RhOHvX >>> >>> >> LGTM >> >> Facebook: >>> On this day in 1954, music went portable as never before when the first >>> practical transistor radio made in any significant numbers was announced. >>> One year after the release of the TR-1 sales approached the 100,000 mark. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio >>> >> >> LGTM >> >> >>> Twitter: >>> Happy birthday to tennis great Martina Navratilova, with records for >>> most singles and doubles titles in open era. http://buff.ly/1RhPvB1 >>> >> >> Hmmmm, this one concerns me because of the "in open era" .. I had no idea >> what it was talking about and in order to find out I had to 1. Click the >> link, 2. search for a reference in the article to it 3. click to go to >> article about the History of tennis and 4. read the section there >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tennis#Open_Era>... I worry >> that's going to be really confusing for people and the number of steps >> would cause many not to completely understand. >> >> Would people be happy with just saying "since 1968" ? (the start of the >> open era) >> >> >> Facebook: >>> Happy birthday to tennis great Martina Navratilova, the only player in >>> history to have held the top spot in both singles and doubles for over 200 >>> weeks. http://buff.ly/1RhPvB1 >>> >> >> LGTM >> >> > > -- > Jeff Elder > Digital communications manager > Wikimedia Foundation > 704-650-4130 > @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> > @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> > The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> > > -- Sent from a device with a small keyboard with big fingers :)
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