Sciam Observations Blog posted 5/9/08 | 0 comments

Plans for Large Hadron Collider visible in screen shot of first Web site

Remember the foreshadowing of the Death Star in Star Wars: Episode II? Check out this screen shot from the world's first Web site, http://info.cern.ch/, which went live 15 years ago on April 30, 1993.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 (LHC), the 27-kilometer circular particle accelerator set to fire up later this year at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.Web history buffs will recall that CERN was the place where physicist Tim Berners-Lee first dreamed up the World Wide Web, back in March 1989, hence the URL of the first Web site.... [more]