
First web server on the internet. (Boing Boing)
This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. Today, it is kept in Microcosm, the public museum at the Meyrin site of CERN, in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
The document resting on the keyboard is a copy of “Information Management: A Proposal,” which was Berners-Lee’s original proposal for the World Wide Web.
The label on the cube itself has the following text: “This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!”
This guy could get so many blow jobs today it’s ridiculous.
am I a nerd for knowing who Tim Berners-Lee is?
Both the source of all my income and the bane of my existence.
gbattle sez: I was a NeXT guru at the time. Mach-OS, the eventual basis of OS-X, was quite well done. However, I’m not...
This guy could get so many blow jobs today it’s ridiculous.