The importance of being networked
Brian E. Carpenter, David O. Williams · Physics World · 1992
Several branches of the physical sciences, and high-energy particle physics in particular, have used computer networks routinely for many years. In some countries, such as the United Kingdom and Italy, the physics community has been a major force behind the development of computer networking for the whole national scientific and academic community. On an international basis, the last decade has seen the birth and growth of HEPnet – the high-energy physics network – on a European and even intercontinental basis (see Fluckiger in Further reading). Indeed, the current generation of major particle physics experiments, run as international collaborations, could not have come to fruition without computer networking.