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I generally believe that looking for "spin-offs" is a poor way to justify experimental physics, the space program, etc. However, it does seem apropos to mentio
by tobinfricke 6y ago
I generally believe that looking for "spin-offs" is a poor way to justify experimental physics, the space program, etc.
However, it does seem apropos to mention that the web itself was a spin-off of work at CERN.
- f00zz 6y agoRight, others have mentioned the WWW. But it doesn't look obvious to me how the existence of a high energy physics research facility was a necessary precondition for the development of the web. The idea of hypertext had already been floating around for some time (SGML, Xanadu, etc). I was curious about things more directly related to the actual research done at CERN.