Here is a list of things I recommend doing as a tourist to DC.
National Postal Museum: It is part of the Smithsonian (so free entrance) and located next to the main train station, Union Station, in DC.
Air and Space museum out by Dulles
Walk the mall
Walk Georgetown
The Iwo Jima memorial
Arlington National Cemetery which is large and also houses trees from all over the world.
Tour the White House
Smithsonian (there are over 18 museums)
I was doing some research on Italy, and I got to a screen that said, “You have reached the end.” During this time at home, you too may have reached the end of the Internet… but, did you wonder where it began?
The Internet started just a few steps from Washington, DC, USA, fifty years ago. Developed from 1970-1975 in Arlington, Virginia, the “ARPANet” (Advanced Research Projects Agency Net) was developed as a communications tool by the military. A small plaque stands on the side of the road in Arlington, Virginia. The plaque has a smaller plaque with zeroes and ones representing the binary code for “ARPANet.” Although Arlington County claims to have invented the Internet, the first computer-to-computer transmission was in California in 1969, but it was the ARPANet who figured out how to dice up information into binary code…. which became the Internet, online shopping, electronic mail, blogging, and video-calls (imagine no Zoom?)… The World Wide Web.
A whole new world.