How CERN's search for physics answers helped build the modern internet
In short: Discover how the massive data challenges faced by physicists at CERN drove the globalization of the internet and shaped our modern digital landscape.
Tim Smith traces the history of big data through the lens of CERN, exploring how physicists have spent decades grappling with the storage and sharing of increasingly massive datasets. This pursuit of a solution to their data problem acted as a catalyst for the global expansion of the internet.
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