LHC circa 1993

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Long long ago, in the days of Kurt Cobain, the intarwebs were invented by Al Gore... err... Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, that science place where they collide particles and stuff.

 

So it's little surprise that one of the first images to end up on tha intarwebs was this early design of LHC's ATLAS detector:

 

http://info.cern.ch/NextBrowser1.html

 

 

Yes, unfortunately it's covered with crap, but compare with this rendering of the final version:

 

 

Pretty cool, eh?

 

Also: YAY NeXT!