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Re:Open sourcing Grid, the Guardian’s new image management s... by pjmlp on Thursday August 13, 2015 @03:39AM (#10052729)
For a split second I thought about CERN´s Grid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_LHC_Computing_Grid

Don't you love everyone using the same names?

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Re:Open sourcing Grid, the Guardian’s new image management s... by jamesgorrie on Thursday August 13, 2015 @06:57AM (#10053287)
Strangely ours had more to do with Tron & the ascetic than it did any sort of computing configuration.

One of the picture editors on it claimed, "it looks a bit like the Grid from Tron" - and it stuck.

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