Take steps to preserve the NeXT hardware

Images of TBL's NeXT being serviced in 2009

Dan Noyes — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:21:12 +0000

In August 2009 a team from the Association aBCM in Lausanne came to CERN to give the world's first web server a health check under the watchful eye of web pioneer Robert Cailliau. They took an image of the hard drive at this time, copies of which were given to Robert Cailliau and Tim Berners-Lee. See photos of the process here

Help with the NeXT

Dan Noyes — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:57:57 +0000

We had some good leads this week for help with the NeXT which I thought I would share here briefly in response to a number of "what's happening?" queries we are getting.

We want to do a couple of things with the NeXT:

Huge interest

Dan Noyes — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:34:40 +0000

We were quite astonished at the level of interest in the project when it was announced yesterday, on the twentieth anniversary of CERN making WWW royalty free. Hundreds of thousands of people came to check in on the first website and to learn about the project to restore it.

We have a great number of leads that came up following yesterday's publicity. People who have old machines lying around; copies of files that may be of use; expertise; ideas; stories. This is fantastic. Thank you.

NeXT optical disc

Dan Noyes — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:40:20 +0000

Here's a good description of the NeXT's optical drives: http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/archives/2010/03/next_optical_discs.s...

TBL's NeXT had a health check and hard drive was cloned

Silvia Tomanin — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:14:25 +0000

Robert Cailliau gave me contact details for a group in Lausanne connected to the EPFL who cloned the TBL NeXT's hard drive and gave the machine a health check some time ago. Am in touch to see how they might help, and what data they have.

NeXT brochure

Cian O'Luanaigh — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:11:21 +0000

I've found some resources about the NeXT.

See images from the original brochure that came with the NeXT