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Early plans for LHC visible in 1993 screen shot of CERN site

science-community.sciam.com — Check out this screen shot from the world's first Web site, http://info.cern.ch/, which went live 15 years ago. Note the multicolored diagram in the background. That's an early schematic of ATLAS, one of two enormous particle detectors recently installed at the Large Hadron Collider, set to fire up later this year at CERN.

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  • hmunkey, on 05/11/2008, -4/+8Isn't this the thing that the crazies think will create a black hole?
    • prleet, on 05/11/2008, -7/+3crazies don't think it will create it, it has been predicted that it will be created! The problem arise after it.
      • mickstephenson, on 05/11/2008, -0/+12The differences is predictions made by people that know what they are talking about like Quantum Physicists carry more weight than predictions made by your Grandad
    • Lunarbunny, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2What I heard is that it may create temporary black holes but that they'd fall apart after a few fractions of a second without doing anything all that special to the layperson. Then again I'm not a scientist so I may be spouting bull.
  • mnmleon, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1yes. can't wait, its this month right?
  • brutalsponge, on 05/11/2008, -9/+1More like Large Hardon Collider, amirite?
  • badnewshotel, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2NERD!!!!!!!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YewgCvCPHZo
  • mickstephenson, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3The computer this screenshot was taken on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Premier_serveur ... and also the worlds first webserver.
  • benjorino, on 05/11/2008, -1/+5I'm going to CERN around mid June... just when things should be getting exciting :)
    Cant wait!
    • geekchic, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Enjoy the museum there - it is very good.
  • cruzlee, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2I still get excited by the idea that there is a chance (however remote) that we will actually break our solar system with this thing. What better way to end it all then by pressing a button? Makes me think about the hilarious doomsday device scene in Dr. Strangelove. "I wish we had one of those..."
    • sanosuke001, on 05/12/2008, -0/+0really, it's worth the risk. and if it does happen, at least it was the frenchies (humor, i love your fries, guys)

      but seriously, we're going to destroy ourselves in one way or another. I'd rather it be through the quest for knowledge instead of the quest for power.
  • HALL9000, on 05/11/2008, -4/+1Window Maker FTW !
  • coltraning, on 05/11/2008, -0/+7Dugg for NeXT
  • booshack, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2i love lhc
  • elbekko, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3Looks like every page he has open there talks about the LHC.
  • cbell1956, on 05/11/2008, -5/+2Tim Berners-Lee? and I thought Al Gore invented the World Wide Web.
  • noblesnail, on 05/11/2008, -6/+1Was I the only one who read "Large Hardon Collider"?
  • mrsammercer, on 05/11/2008, -0/+5I love the terminology used for this project. CERN, ATLAS. Those terms just sound like badass futuristic scifi words. It kind of reminds me of Evangelion or something. I don't know, maybe it's just the fact that we're dealing with a massive underground structure and "NERV" sort of sounds like "NERV"
    • mrsammercer, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3Jesus, I meant "CERN sort of sounds like "NERV". What a glaring mistake.
  • kreatre2007, on 05/11/2008, -5/+3Gotta love NeXT! If you're a Mac user, you're using an updated version of NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. Steve Jobs founded NeXT just after getting booted out of Apple. In a way, we have Steve Jobs to thank for the World Wide Web -- debatable of course :)
    • ricperry1, on 05/11/2008, -1/+2That's ridiculous. NeXT Step was not the tech that prompted the World Wide Web. It was simply a tool that the implementors of the idea used. It could have been any reasonably modern OS. Yet again the MacHeads are attempting to take credit for a commonplace modern tool.
      • kreatre2007, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2You're a ***** idiot. My intent was not for NeXTStep to take credit. I was making light of the fact that a NeXT workstation was used to create the World Wide Web. Jeezus!!!
  • kingtacof4, on 05/11/2008, -0/+0Where did they get April 1993 from? I just went to info.cern.ch and found this;
    "During 1991 servers appeared in other institutions in Europe and in December 1991, the first server outside the continent was installed in the US at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). By November 1992, there were 26 servers in the world, and by October 1993 the figure had increased to over 200 known web servers. In February 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released the first version of Mosaic, which was to make the Web available to people using PCs and Apple Macintoshes."

    Also, I was using the internet in April 1993 and there were plenty of website then.
  • potterboy, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1http://home.mcom.com/MCOM/index2.html
  • ryan83189, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Tear this internet apart, i want those plans and i want them now.
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