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Originally Posted by TheChosen
The internet (www to be more exact) was born in CERN.. what more needs to be said? CERN is a lot more than a nuclear research facility..
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Hi TheChosen - Your comment is kind of funny. When I was complaining about DARPA on another thread, someone also mentioned it, i.e. thank DARPA (CERN, God, whatever) for the internet. I am aware of www history. For the record then:
1962: "In the Beginning, ARPA created the ARPANET." Includes RAND Corporation, MIT, UCLA...
http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/
1989: The first proposal for the World Wide Web (WWW) was made at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, and further refined by him and Robert Cailliau in 1990.
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CERN = Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
European Organization for Nuclear Research
1954: At the end of the Second World War, European science was no longer the crème de la crème. Following the example of the now mushrooming international organizations, a handful of visionary scientists imagined creating a European atomic physics laboratory. Raoul Dautry, Pierre Auger and Lew Kowarski in France, Edoardo Amaldi in Italy and Niels Bohr in Denmark were among these pioneers. Such a laboratory would not only unite European scientists but also allow them to share the increasing costs of nuclear physics facilities.
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/...tory54-en.html
If you have ideas about CERN as "a lot more than a nuclear research facility," besides the world wide web and particle physics research, please do elaborate! Thanks for nudging me to clarify this.