Hackers' Pub

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`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
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`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

3/12/2025, 1:00:00 PM

Public

Here's the actual proposal, from https://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html

A piece of history.

A scan of a printed first page of the Information Management Proposal, with the following Abstract section:

"This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system."

Below are listed keywords: Hypertext, Computer conferencing, Document retrieval, Information management, Project control

Further below is a schematic showing a proposed way to organize information in a computer network.

At the top of the image is a magnifying glass hovering over a handwritten note that reads:

"Vague but exciting..."

Alan Levine @cogdog@cosocial.ca

3/13/2025, 5:56:15 AM

Public

@stefanStefan Bohacek Actually there's even more to this story- the "vague but exciting" comment was not supposed to be shared

https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2020/12/the-untold-story-of-the-birth-of-world-wide-web-putting-the-record-straight.html

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