Followers of this blog know that the World Wide Web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee at the European Nuclear Energy Agency CERN. This was the first picture posted to the web. Its a band comprised of scientists from CERN, called “Les Horrible Cernettes.”
https://musiclub.web.cern.ch/bands/cernettes/firstband.html
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Independence Day is upon us
Once upon a time in 1936 rotary dial telephones were introduced by the Bell System. This introduced telephone subscribers to “dial tone” which indicated the phone system was ready, the “ringing signal” which indicated the phone number you just dial was getting the phone call, and the “busy signal” which indicated that the phone number you just called was already on the line with another call. Here’s a video that explains the whole process.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/cA93XJ3ub5GNvems/?mibextid=oFDknk
The young woman who submitted the tech support message below (about her relationship to her husband) presumably did it as a joke. Then she got a ...
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In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the ASCII code for the asterisk symbol, which is often thought to represent “anything or everything“. In this context, 42 can mean “everything” or “the meaning of life”. In programming, an asterisk is often used as a wildcard or “whatever you want it to be” symbol. This means that the answer to life, the universe, and everything is whatever you ...
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