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I would add creating WWW as a nice side product of CERN. I am sure they do much more in their highly specialized fields, ie seen tons of stuff open sourced (but

I would add creating WWW as a nice side product of CERN. I am sure they do much more in their highly specialized fields, ie seen tons of stuff open sourced (but I am not an expert on this so can't say how usable it actually is to other physicists).

dekhn 4y ago
The web woudl have been created without CERN. If you have to fund a $10B accelerator to make the web, your funding model is broken.
bee_rider 4y ago
The WWW is looking like kind of a mixed bag nowadays.