Maybe not so ironic given that the first website in the United States was a DOE project- a DBMS for papers (SPIRES) at SLAC and arXiv.org was born about the sam

Maybe not so ironic given that the first website in the United States was a DOE project- a DBMS for papers (SPIRES) at SLAC and arXiv.org was born about the same time out of LANL. You used to actually get your papers faxed to you from arXiv.org.