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 [deleted] 64 months ago | reply
This right here - started all this right here :)
sean percival 64 months ago | reply
nice! thats a NeXT box too!
Darren Waters 64 months ago | reply
Cool photo. Wow.
JoeDuck 64 months ago | reply
Whoops and OMFG Scoble you just turned off the INTERNET!
Robert Scoble 64 months ago | reply
Don't worry, the machine was under glass. Heheh.
blmurch 64 months ago | reply
Oh that's cool.
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s_nattress 64 months ago | reply
I wonder, is the book in the bottom of the shot Tim's by any chance?
Jason-Morrison 64 months ago | reply
Great photo - a little piece of internet history.
MacSmiley 64 months ago | reply
Fun. I love telling people that NeXTSTEP was Mac OS X's great grandpa!
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roughtimes 64 months ago | reply
umm...This isn't Al Gores computer.
br3w 64 months ago | reply
*click* Internet on! *click* Internet off!
Robert Scoble 64 months ago | reply
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.
EdLass 64 months ago | reply
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. :)
shoden 64 months ago | reply
Silly roughtimes, Tim just watched a secret documentary that Gore produced and did the dirty work.
photofiend358 64 months ago | reply
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!
antiapathy 64 months ago | reply
NeXT rocks!
Guy R 64 months ago | reply
I loved NeXTStep ! It just worked.
arjunghosh 58 months ago | reply
cool
Digital Sextant 56 months ago | reply
Thanks for CCing this photo. I just used it on my blog.
Jonnysblog 41 months ago | reply
Thanks for the CC. Using it on my geeky blog too...
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