CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice

(web.cern.ch)

133 points | by EbNar 5 hours ago

7 comments

  • keiferski 1 minute ago
    In high school twenty years ago, my IT class teacher told me that technically speaking, a collection of computer mice of different styles (that is, not all the same brand/shape/color/etc.) are actually called mouses, not mice. I always thought he was joking, but apparently it is/was a considered correct at some point:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse#Etymology

  • spiritplumber 2 hours ago
    I miss the internet when it was like this.
    • edent 39 minutes ago
      It is still like this. You just have to drag yourself away from the big sites and you will find all manner of weirdness.
  • tempodox 3 hours ago
    I love that CERN has such a strong bond with their animals. They are even monitoring the quantum entanglements of their sheep: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-scientists-find-eviden...
    • perihelions 2 hours ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545349 ("CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep (home.cern)"; April 1, 2025)
    • lokimedes 2 hours ago
      And yet, not everything is so pretty at CERN.

      Just consider their Large Hamster Collider! It’s a travesty, and last I head, they were colliding billions of hamster per second. You also got to ask what they do with the resulting elephants and whatnot coming out of those relativistic collisions.

  • 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 43 minutes ago
    Not sure the Panicking pick depicts panicking though
  • EbNar 5 hours ago
    The CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice is a non-profit organization maintained by CERN staff during their leisure time...
    • MultifokalHirn 5 hours ago
      Reminds me of the fact that what to past or future civilisations perhaps looks dystopian or primitive, might just be jokes and a good time
      • Mistletoe 3 hours ago
        “The scientists at the facility are believed to have worshipped or made sacrifices of their computer mice, due to their primitive minds’ beliefs that it would affect the outcome of their experiments.”
  • witnessme 1 hour ago
    Oh CERN folks, you beautiful people
  • junaru 2 hours ago
    The site is so simple yet has so much soul - a part of internet lost.
    • Levitating 1 hour ago
      not lost is it? this site is still up

      I think things like these have just become harder to find. There are some search engines which try to bring the "old" internet back to life like Marginalia Search.