Happy Birthday CERN

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Chuck
on March 5, 2008
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CERN turns 54 today!

Back in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau initiated a project called ENQUIRE at CERN which was the beginning of the World Wide Web. A copy of the original first webpage, created by Berners-Lee, is kept here (time warp SFX).

The facts are these: 

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (or CERN - I know, I know - it should be called EONR right? Well the acronym is French, so stick that in your router and pipe it.) is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the border between France and Switzerland.

Based on the concept of hypertext, the project was aimed at facilitating sharing information among researchers (now look at us). The first website went on-line in 1991. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone (Net Neutrality!!!!!).

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5 Responses to “Happy Birthday CERN”

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  1. 1 jason
    March 5, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    A. Nice picture choice

    B. Didn’t Al Gore invent the interweb?

  2. 2 brett
    March 5, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    Did you know?? Al Gore is on the Board of Directors for Apple Inc.

    Maybe he knows more than we thought he knew

  3. 3 iconogeek
    March 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    A. Thank you.
    B. Yes he did. and with the Nobel prize AND an Oscar, he’s poised to be the next galactic leader.

  4. 4 Cesar
    March 6, 2008 at 9:38 am

    I humbly pledge my zombie-hunting skills and any other skills he may need of me to further his enviro-grip on the Earth.

    I bet he’s the voice of Captain Planet…it could be true.

  5. 5 brett
    March 6, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    I’m starting to believe that Al Gore is Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, AND John McCain…alter ego fear not…for the rightful 2time President elect, shall return to his rightful throne

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