The mainframe era in CERN (2004)

More details as refer to in the articles here:

http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/2001/002/cern-computing

http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/2001/003/comp30

http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/2001/003/comp30-last

Those were the days my friend …

Written in 1990s

“ Will people stop programming, either because every possible program has been written or because neural networks will replace programmable circuits? ”

And the bet about Fortran:

“ In 30 years time the CERN Computing School will celebrate its 50th anniversary. If I had to pick one thing likely to still be alive 30 years from now I would choose FORTRAN. It is as safe a bet as to predict that everything else is going to change.”

I always associated cern with World Wide Web (www) and Next Computer used there. But it must have a lot of innovation and helping the developing of IT world at large.