Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile - Issue 69: Patterns - Nautilus
The forbidden symmetry of Penrose tiles and quasicrystals.
Link archive: February 16th, 2019
FOREVERYONE.NET
I linked to this a while back but now this great half hour documentary by Jessica Yu is ready and you can watch the whole thing online: Tim Berners-Lee, the birth of the web, and where the web has gone since.
In the scenes describing the early web, there’s footage of the recreated Line Mode Browser—how cool is that‽
Recreating the First Web Browser at CERN | U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Geneva
The US Mission to the UN in Geneva came by to visit us during our hackweek at CERN.
“Our hope is that over the next few days we are going to recreate the experience of what it would be like using that browser, but doing it in a way that anyone using a modern web browser can experience,” explains team member Jeremy Keith. The aim is to “give people the feeling of what it would have been like, in terms of how it looked, how it felt, the fonts, the rendering, the windows, how you navigated from link to link.”
Developers revitalise first Web browser at week-long hackathon | CERN
Here’s the CERN write-up of our week of hacking to produce the recreation of the WorldWideWeb browser.