You’ve probably heard by now that this month is the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web. What you may not have realized is that it was invented at CERN – The guys who are running the Large Hadron Collider. They realized that the internet of the day was too arcane and insufficient to their needs as Big Science research nerds, so a better system was developed to allow simpler collaboration.
1: Suck it people who say that it’s a waste of money to fund Big Science fundamentals research. You never know what’s going to come from it.
Why is this important? Because when Steve came back to Apple, he brought the NeXT OS (then called OpenStep) with him, and it became the foundation of Mac OS X.
2: Suck it Windows users. We Apple fanboys get to claim some serious geek cred for this. Or at least we should be able to. Redmond had nothing to do with this one.
And no, I’m not trying to start a Mac vs PC flame war, I merely tease.
Brian the Bat had a dream of glory and space exploration. He gave his life in the pursuit of that that dream. Brian, you were an inspiration to us all. Fly, Space Bat, Fly.
So is Avon aware that they are advertising the T-Virus from Resident Evil? There’s an uncanny resemblance. Do they really want to bring about a zombie apocalypse? Thanks to Redge for the link!
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