Blog Post #3

http://info.cern.ch/
Above is the link to a website from the first web server ever created. Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), is the one to praise for the development of the World Wide Web.

The text explains along with the above link that Berners-Lee invented the basic web in 1990. He started out developing it for internal use only however, that changed when he found out what he had created.

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/WebStory-en.html
In December of 1991, the United States adopted the web. There were only two web browsers at this time. One of them would only run on neXT computers and the other one was the line-mode browser which left users limited.

CERN decided that their small team could not expand the system any further. Berners-Lee sent out a notice to all other developers to join the ever expanding web development. It was in 1993 when the first version of the Mosaic browser was invented by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina. Mosaic made it available to not only use hypertext but also place pictures on the web.

Berners-Lee never patented his invention therefore he has not made the millions that were potentially available. This link (http://www.itnews.com.au/News/88617,the-top-10-greatest-geeks-of-all-time.aspx) is an article written by Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols. This article states that Berners-Lee would have made a fortune off the internet. This fortune could have equaled the value of a small country. “Instead he gave it away, recognizing that profiting from something like this would inhibit the growth of a technology that had the potential to revolutionize human affairs,” says Thomson.

Nichlos states that no one would have ever heard about CERN if it wasn’t for LHC. (https://lhc2008.web.cern.ch/LHC2008/) LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is the highest energy particle accelerator in the whole world. This year makes it 20 years that people have been working on it.

The first time I ever heard of CERN was when I was reading the book Angels and Demons. CERN is where the book takes place. They first mention it in the beginning of the book when they talk about antimatter which is something that CERN is researching.