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Tag on Tim Berners-Lee's original NeXT machine -- first Web server by Robert Scoble.
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  Pro User  says:

This right here - started all this right here :)
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sean percival  Pro User  says:

nice! thats a NeXT box too!
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Darren Waters  Pro User  says:

Cool photo. Wow.
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JoeDuck  Pro User  says:

Whoops and OMFG Scoble you just turned off the INTERNET!
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Robert Scoble  Pro User  says:

Don't worry, the machine was under glass. Heheh.
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blmurch  Pro User  says:

Oh that's cool.

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Seen on reddit.com (?)
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s_nattress says:

I wonder, is the book in the bottom of the shot Tim's by any chance?
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Jason-Morrison  Pro User  says:

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

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MacSmiley  Pro User  says:

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

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roughtimes  Pro User  says:

umm...This isn't Al Gores computer.
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br3w  Pro User  says:

*click* Internet on! *click* Internet off!
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Robert Scoble  Pro User  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.
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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. :)
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shoden  Pro User  says:

Silly roughtimes, Tim just watched a secret documentary that Gore produced and did the dirty work.
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photofiend358  Pro User  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!
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antiapathy says:

NeXT rocks!
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Guy R  Pro User  says:

I loved NeXTStep ! It just worked.
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arjunghosh says:

cool
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Digital Sextant  Pro User  says:

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

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