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CERN restores world's first website, celebrates 20 years of a free and open web

CERN restores world
  • Posted April 30, 2013, 12:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Industry News Breaking News
  • Tim Berners-Lee led the project that resulted in the world's first web page sometime around 1991. But it wasn’t until this exact same day in 1993 that CERN announced it would make the software required to run a web server…

CERN says newly discovered particle is consistent with Higgs boson

CERN says newly discovered particle is consistent with Higgs boson
  • Posted July 4, 2012, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web Breaking News With Video
  • Scientists announced today that the Higgs boson -- or a new subatomic particle like it -- appears to indeed be real. The hunt for the Higgs boson has been an intense one, for its absence could have single-handedly destroyed whatever…

Physicists set world record with 186Gbps network transfer

Physicists set world record with 186Gbps network transfer
  • Posted December 15, 2011, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web With Video
  • Scientists at Caltech managed to squeeze 186Gbps of data through a fiber optic network link between Victoria, B.C and Seattle, WA. This achievement marks the highest speed transfer ever over a long-range network, breaking the previous record of 119Gbps which…

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