Do Not Power Down This Machine: It Is The Internet

    "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"

    The message on the front of the first web server.

    Geneva, Switzerland
    November 2006

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      Bill Humphries, @tomh, bootload, Mulling it Over, and 17 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. ccomley (79 months ago | reply)

      Das komputermachin is nicht fur gerfinkerpoken!

    3. Mulling it Over (79 months ago | reply)

      It's a NEXT box. Awesome.

    4. jon madison (48 months ago | reply)

      not the Internet (we *did* have gopher,telnet,IRC,talk, Usenet, et. al. then)

      but yeah we get it. :)

    5. gazi karim (33 months ago | reply)

      In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee proposed to his employer CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) a new project, which had the goal of easing the exchange of information between scientists by using a hypertext system.
      Electricity Monitor

    6. dottavi (30 months ago | reply)

      absolute love

    7. Limannk (26 months ago | reply)

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