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If you ever get to go to Geneva, swing by the CERN exhibit. There's the original fileserver, complete with 'This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER DOWN!!' scraw
by NamTaf 9y ago
If you ever get to go to Geneva, swing by the CERN exhibit. There's the original fileserver, complete with 'This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER DOWN!!' scrawled on tape stuck over the power button. There's also his paper describing the WWW with the feedback of his manager written across the top: "vague but interesting...".
It's kind of comforting to know that my academic and computing experiences thus far are shared both across the globe and across decades.
- salesguy222 9y agoHaha "vague but interesting". Isn't it amazing how big of a disconnect there is between "people who are capable of identifying/executing on big ideas" (aka Tim and his manager).... and "the projects that businesses/agencies want their employees to do"
- ianai 9y agoEspecially when, in hindsight, it's anything but vague.
- remael 9y agoTo be pedantic, he wrote "Vague, but exciting". See http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html for more info.