Day in Tech History

Large Hadron Collider Magnets by Alpinethread

1994 – Recently we’ve heard about this thing called the Large Hadron Collider. Although it’s only been in mainstream news for a couple years, it’s been thought up and developed for many years now.On this day, for example, CERN receives not only approval, but also the funding to build this massive device. Because of this, CERN hands the WebCore project to the French organization INRIA (the Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique.)

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• Kevin Mitnick charged with stealing $1 million from DEC
• The Transistor is first demonstrated to a small audience
• The Pepper Pad is released
• Steve Jobs and Apple back out of MacWorld