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by khanhnguyen8386 3 days ago
Open source code on Codeberg and historical data combined into a functional map—this is the kind of passion project the web was built for.
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FearNotDaniel 3 days ago
I mean, technically it was built for "the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN". The fact that it also supports a whole bunch of peoples' passion projects as well as a multi-trillion dollar commercial marketplace is just a bonus...

https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

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khanhnguyen8386 3 days ago
Fair point! Though I suspect Tim Berners-Lee wouldn't mind a 43-day Roman road trip planner being part of CERN's ultimate legacy.
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