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The World Wide Web and High‐Energy Physics

NOV 01, 1998
The Web—what you may now be using to buy an airline ticket or look up Miles Davis’s discography—began life as a tool for improving the flow of information at CERN.
Bebo White

In his 1998 State of the Union address. President Bill Clinton told Congress: We should enable all the world’s people to explore the far reaches of cyberspace. Think of this: The first time I made a State of the Union speech to you, only a handful of physicists used the World Wide Web—literally, just a handful of people. Now, in schools, in libraries, homes and businesses, millions and millions of Americans surf the Net every day.

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More about the Authors

Bebo White. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California.

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