CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice

Rock n roll. They are welcome to my brand new M100. She doesnt sit level on my desk, and arrived with a squeaky scroll wheel.

I dread buying a new model of anything these days, knowing that the MBAs will have found some way to shave a cent off a million units, or a millionth of a meter from a poor mouse foot. But I guess I'll replace her before there are only smart maice avAIlable.

Oh and CERN is an amazing place to visit if you ever get a chance. Plan well ahead since I waited a long time for a visitor slot last time I was in CH.

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

This is the Internet of whimsy I grew up with and I miss it constantly. Thank you, poster.

I miss the internet when it was like this.

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...

The CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice is a non-profit organization maintained by CERN staff during their leisure time...

Not sure the Panicking pick depicts panicking though

Oh CERN folks, you beautiful people

The site is so simple yet has so much soul - a part of internet lost.

Rock n roll. They are welcome to my brand new M100. She doesnt sit level on my desk, and arrived with a squeaky scroll wheel.

Oh and CERN is an amazing place to visit if you ever get a chance. Plan well ahead since I waited a long time for a visitor slot last time I was in CH.

This is the Internet of whimsy I grew up with and I miss it constantly. Thank you, poster.

Not sure the Panicking pick depicts panicking though

Oh CERN folks, you beautiful people

The CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice is a non-profit organization maintained by CERN staff during their leisure time...

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

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

Isn't it similar to fish vs fishes?

I miss the internet when it was like this.

Just keep hiting 'surprise me'

https://wiby.org/

It is still like this. You just have to drag yourself away from the big sites and you will find all manner of weirdness.

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...

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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545349 ("CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep (home.cern)"; April 1, 2025)

The site is so simple yet has so much soul - a part of internet lost.

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.