RESEARCH COLLECTION / 06 OF 10
Institutions & Laboratories.
Breakthroughs have addresses and budgets. Map the laboratories, universities, government agencies and companies that supported research, infrastructure and software adoption.
THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS
CERN is part of a wider network
CERN’s 1989 Web proposal was motivated by the practical problem of sharing information within a dispersed scientific community.
The Moore School shaped later work
The Computer History Museum documents the 1946 lectures that informed several stored-program computing projects.
Funding and infrastructure matter
Machines required staff, procurement, space, and resources. A chronology focused only on inventors can obscure how institutions enabled work.
OPEN QUESTIONS
What would settle the record?
- Who funded and maintained the project?
- What contemporary institutional records survive?
- How did tools and expertise move between organizations?
BIBLIOGRAPHIC STARTING POINTS
Starting sources
These are identified materials to consult, not a claim that this collection has already completed exhaustive archival verification. Source types are marked to keep later interpretation distinct from contemporary evidence.
- 01CERN Archives, original Web proposal, collection CERN-ARCH-WWW-4-010
Archival finding aid
Open source record ↗ - 02Computer History Museum, Timeline: 1946 and ENIAC
Museum interpretation
Open source record ↗ - 03Computer History Museum, “1949: EDSAC computer employs delay-line storage”
Museum technical history
Open source record ↗ - 04Internet Society, “A Brief History of the Internet,” Leiner et al., 1997
Participant historical account
Open source record ↗
Edition 1.0.0
8 October 2026. Initial collection overview, research questions and bibliography published. No original interviews, newly acquired artifacts, or independent experiments are claimed. Substantive future changes will be explained here.
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