Tag on Tim Berners-Lee's original NeXT machine -- first Web server

That's Tim's handwriting on the first computer on the Web (this is the computer that Tim used to invent the WWW).

A great article about CERN and what you are seeing in this picture is in this month's Scientific American here: www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-discovery-machine-hadron...

I will have a video I shot of the tour up on FastCompany.tv on March 3.

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Jeff Paine says:

This right here - started all this right here :)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

sean percival says:

nice! thats a NeXT box too!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Darren Waters says:

Cool photo. Wow.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

JoeDuck says:

Whoops and OMFG Scoble you just turned off the INTERNET!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Robert Scoble says:

Don't worry, the machine was under glass. Heheh.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

blmurch says:

Oh that's cool.

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Seen on reddit.com (?)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

s_nattress says:

I wonder, is the book in the bottom of the shot Tim's by any chance?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Jason-Morrison says:

Great photo - a little piece of internet history.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

MacSmiley says:

Fun. I love telling people that NeXTSTEP was Mac OS X's great grandpa!

Congratulations! I've posted this photo to my tumblelog!

Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

roughtimes says:

umm...This isn't Al Gores computer.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

br3w says:

*click* Internet on! *click* Internet off!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Robert Scoble says:

s_nattress: the book is one that Tim used as a kid and got inspiration from. It's an encyclopedia of some kind. Sorry that I don't have more info on it.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

EdXeno says:

The book is Enquire Within Upon Everything. Sir Tim talks about its significance at the beginning of his own book. Wikimedia has a zoomed out photo and its summary is also my source. :)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

shoden says:

Silly roughtimes, Tim just watched a secret documentary that Gore produced and did the dirty work.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

photofiend358 says:

Ah, NeXT. In 1988 or 1989 my university (small, liberal arts place in western Pennsylvania) decided to invest in these and network the entire campus. Little did I know where things would go from there!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

antiapathy says:

NeXT rocks!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Guy R says:

I loved NeXTStep ! It just worked.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

arjunghosh says:

cool
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

Digital Sextant says:

Thanks for CCing this photo. I just used it on my blog.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

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