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This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. Today, it is kept in Microcosm, the public museum at the Meyrin site of CERN, in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

The document resting on the keyboard is a copy of "Information Management: A Proposal," which was Berners-Lee's original proposal for the World Wide Web.

The label on the cube itself has the following text: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"

Just below the keyboard (not shown) is a label which reads: "At the end of the 80s, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web using this Next computer as the first Web server."

The book is probably "Enquire Within upon Everything", which TBL describes on page one of his book Weaving the Web as "a musty old book of Victorian advice I noticed as a child in my parents' house outside London".

Photographed on August 10, 2005, by en:user:Coolcaesar.

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  • 22:06, 14 August 2005 . . Coolcaesar ( Talk) . . 1000x750 (281253 bytes) (This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. Today, it is kept in Microcosm, the public museum at the Meyrin site of CERN, in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.)

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current 20:06, 12 August 2006 1,000×750 (541 KB) Wackymacs (removed blurring...cloning pattern so that the flash shine is removed properly without looking weird)
08:19, 12 August 2006 1,000×750 (522 KB) Wackymacs (removed blemishes, spots using Photoshop clone/stamp tool...looks much better now)
12:54, 8 December 2005 1,000×750 (176 KB) VanGore (manipulated; source from ''2:12, 30 October 2005 . . Romanm . . 1000x750 (281253 bytes) (from :en:Image:First Web Server.jpg)''; I have smeard the refelction of the flash)
22:12, 30 October 2005 1,000×750 (275 KB) Romanm (from en:Image:First Web Server.jpg)
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