{"id":21051,"date":"2019-06-15T20:54:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=21051"},"modified":"2019-06-17T14:04:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T13:04:33","slug":"anniversaries-the-world-wide-web-at-30-and-25-cerns-lhc-as-a-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=21051","title":{"rendered":"Anniversaries: The World-Wide-Web at 30 and 25 (+ CERN’s LHC as a bonus)."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The World-Wide-Web is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary; you can get the T-shirt in the CERN visitor centre! \u00a0Five years on, in May 1994, the first Web conference<\/a> took place (WWW94<\/a>) at CERN and now celebrating its own 25th anniversary. That 1994 conference also had various break-out sessions, one of which\u00a0summarised the state of chemistry on the web at the time. You can see my general but entirely personal impressions written after the workshop (DOI: 10.14469\/hpc\/5850<\/a>),\u00a0with a chemistry specific version at DOI: 10.14469\/hpc\/5851<\/a>. \u00a0A real trip down memory lane and an indication of how much has happened in 25 years!<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to be able to visit CERN a few days ago, primarily to view the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid<\/strong>) detector and I also took the opportunity to remember WWW94. Here are a few photos of the visit. Note the chemistry seen in the final photo, taken in the control room (hint: look on the shelf at the back).<\/p>\n\n\t\t