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LMB hack days: Lea Verou

Cian O'Luanaigh — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Photo by Jeremy Keith, Flickr user adactio

An interview with Lea Verou at the line-mode browser hack days.

Name: Lea Verou
Nationality: Greek
Travelled from: Athens, Greece
Profession: Web developer & designer

LMB hack days: John Allsopp

Cian O'Luanaigh — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:15:00 +0000

An interview with John Allsopp at the CERN line-mode browser hack days.

John Allsopp at the line-mode browser hack days (Image: Dan Noyes/CERN)

Name: John Allsopp
Nationality: Australian
Travelled from: Sydney, Australia
Job: Web developer and conference organizer

LMB hack days: Angela Ricci

Cian O'Luanaigh — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:00:00 +0000

An interview with Angela Ricci at the line-mode browser hack days.

Angela Ricci at the line-mode browser hack days. Brian Suda codes in the background (Image: Anna Pantelia/CERN)

Name: Angela Ricci
Nationality: Brazilian
Travelled from: France
Profession: Web designer and front-end developer

LMB hack days: Remy Sharp

Cian O'Luanaigh — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:40:00 +0000

An interview with Remy Sharp at the line-mode browser hack days.

Remy Sharp at the line-mode browser hack days (Image: Dan Noyes/CERN)

Name: Remy Sharp
Nationality: British
Travelled from: Brighton, UK
Profession: Web developer, self-employed

LMB hack days: Brian Leroux

Cian O'Luanaigh — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:14:34 +0000

An interview with Brian Leroux at the CERN line-mode browser hack days.

Brian Leroux at the CERN line-mode browser hack days (Image: Dan Noyes/CERN)

Name: Brian Leroux
Nationality: Canadian
Travelled from: San Francisco, USA, by a roundabout route.
Profession: PhoneGap project at Abobe systems

LMB hack days: Mark Boulton

Cian O'Luanaigh — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:17:17 +0000

An interview with web designer Mark Boulton at the CERN line-mode browser hack days.

Mark Boulton buidling typography at the CERN line-mode browser hack days (Image: Anna Pantelia/CERN)

Name: Mark Boulton
Nationality: British
Travelled from: Wales
Profession: Web designer and founder of Mark Boulton design.

A lunch of ideas

Dan Noyes — Thu, 30 May 2013 16:00:12 +0000

Jean-François Groff dropped by to see us at CERN today and check in on the project. Jean-François worked at the lab from 1991 and was part of the early WWW team, notably working on the code library that was made available to developers wishing to build web browsers and servers on various platforms.

Over lunch he shared a whole raft of ideas, anecdotes, stories, and leads for us to follow. For instance:

A welcome challenge

Cian O'Luanaigh — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:01:44 +0000

On Tuesday we announced the CERN project to restore the first website, and what a response we've had! News of the project was all over European and US media as well as Twitter, and keeping up with the hundreds of enthusiastic tweets, tips and comments is a welcome challenge.

Thanks to all of you, especially those who tweeted, commented, or sent us leads and contacts to follow up.

High-resolution scans of TBL's 1989 proposal

Silvia Tomanin — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:15:44 +0000

Thank you, Robert Cailliau: http://www.cailliau.org/Alphabetical/W/WWW/History/1989Proposal/

These are in .psd format, and file number 5 is corrupted. Robert is looking for another copy of that one. Location of the original document still unknown.