Post #744803
2025-12-04 19:04 UTC
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@ebariaux@mastodon.social 2025-12-05 20:39
A follow-up to my post from yesterday. The NeXTCube I took a picture of is NOT the one from Tim Berners-Lee (TBL) but a similar machine. The one from TBL is sometimes on display at the Science Museum in London but not this time. It can be recognised by the label with TBL's handwritten note "Do not power down", as can be seen in the picture in this post: https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/celebrating-the-web-at-30-with-sir-tim-berners-lee/ 1/3
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@ebariaux@mastodon.social 2025-12-05 20:39
I haven't been able to track where it is now but probably at CERN, maybe at the CERN Science Gateway. Funny serendipitous connection, the CERN Science Gateway building has been designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (https://www.rpbw.com/project/cern-science-gateway-building), that also designed the building of the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. 2/3
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@ebariaux@mastodon.social 2025-12-05 20:40
And a friend also asked about the book that can be seen in front of the NeXTcube in the picture I posted. The book is "Enquire Within upon Everything", with a first edition in the early 19th century, it's meant to provide encyclopedic information on domestic life topics. In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee named his precursor of the World Wide Web ENQUIRE, after this book. 3/3
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@dimsumthinking@mastodon.social 2025-12-04 21:48
@ebariaux my favorite part were the measurement devices
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@axel@hsnl.social 2025-12-04 22:28
@ebariaux From the same museum: One of the first GPS receivers. This is now a small chip hidden in phones and watches.