It was 21 years ago today that Sir Tim Berners-Lee, then a humble scientist at CERN, made the first page on the World Wide Web publicly available. It’s hard now to imagine a world without the web, and it's hardly fathomable that just over two...
While he can be forgiven in the light of what subsequently developed, he was equally guilty of describing a network which at that point didn't exist outside of CERN and certainly wasn't worldwide. What is the tipping point for when a project...
Familiar names on CERN's subject list include Project Gutenberg, the open archive of online books. CERN 1992 Web Guide - Information by Subject http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
CERN is a high energy physics research laboratory, where atomic particles are hurled together in massive high energy accelerators. Perhaps the grandest P2P scheme of all was born at CERN, the very birthplace of the web.
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