"Underground" Computer Movie About CERN

National Geographic just published an amazing article about CERN, a particle accelerator research laboratory in France.

It's a (pretty) good pop-science read but props to our own Brian Turner for highlighting what should have been the big pull quote,

"The people running the LHC aren't in a rush to talk about all the things that can go wrong, perhaps because the public has a way of worrying that mad scientists will accidentally create a black hole that devours the Earth."

I don't know, I feel like they're probably fighting for the forces of good. More than the article, I'm persuaded by this "underground" documentary about the facility from 1974, just some few years before the the internet was birthed there by an English computer scientist by the name of Tim Berners-Lee. 

Comments

[Parq]

"Reduce libido sex drive in the topless clubs"?

[Parq]

Whoops. Posted this to the wrong page. See "Grammatical adventures".

[Kim Scarborough]

At the risk of sounding too much of a pedantic nerd, Berners-Lee did not invent the Internet. It had been around for over 15 years when Berners-Lee came up with a system of connecting hypertext documents (which he also did not invent) over the Internet, and calling it the World Wide Web.

[toober]

Of course Berners-Lee invented the internet a few years after this 1974 video! You see, everything gets invented four times in the computer industry. As claimed above, the Unix weenies did invent the internet in the 1970s. The mainframe guys invented it around 1960. The microcomputer buffs invented it in the 1980s, and now the PDA/iPod crowd can claim their invention about 2000 or so.

[Kim Scarborough]

You forgot Al Gore.