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# The Universe Project becomes WorldWide Telescope  [passages that could be omitted, but have not yet been, are marked with square brackets here]  The Worldwide Telescope was started by amateur astronomer Curtis Wong(now a Microsoft Researcher)  who grew up in Los Angeles with a deep desire to explore the night sky to see the Milky Way, nebula and galaxies as they were in magazines like Sky and Telescope. Of course between the city lights and the smog, all he could see with his 60mm refractor were the moon, a few planets and nebulae. What he really wanted was a gigantic telescope with a dark sky and a Harvard astronomer by his side to guide and explain what he was looking at. Curtis was an interactive media producer creating some of the first CD-ROM’s such as Multimedia Beethoven in 1991. He started a new CD-ROM project called John Dobson’s Universe with guided tours by Dobson explaining deep sky objects in the context of a zoomable night sky featuring the beautiful constellation imagery of Akira Fuji and object imagery from multiple sources. Unfortunately funding for that project got cancelled but Wong continued to think about how it could be done with the emergence of the World Wide Web.   By 2000, Curtis was at Microsoft Research where he worked with big data computer scientist Jim Gray and astronomer Alex Szalay from Johns Hopkins. Jim [Jim  had previously created Terasever, a website which aggregated satellite imagery of the Earth and it allowed anyone to zoom into almost anywhere to see ground detail. This was available many years before Keyhole developed its technology which Google acquired to become Google a Earth. detail.]  Jim and Alex were working on the software that would organize  data pipeline and query processing for from  the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as making so  that data widely available it would be availble on-demand  to astronomers researchers  and the public through a website called SkyServer which was public. In working with Jim and Alex to deisgn  the next incarnation of Teraserver but pointed up. "Skyserver" service serving the Sloan data,  Curtisworked on designing Skyserver and  realized that all the elements were finally becoming available to create his astronomy project. He In 2005, Curtis  attended a Kavli workshop at The University of Chicago called The Visualization of Astrophysical data and presented his vision for the Universe Project.(link to workshop site with Project. Wong's slides are still online at  the PowerPoint presentation) conference web site, here: https://kicp-workshops.uchicago.edu/visualization2005/.  Many of the participants, including Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman, volunteered to help advise on access to other sources of imagery and data. Jonathan Fay, an extraordinary software architect and amateur astronomer himself had done work on 3D graphics, tiled multi resolution image rendering and media authoring, built the first zooming prototype of the Sloan imagery within a few hours. Over the course of two years the project was completed with Curtis designing the experience and Jonathan developing technical architecture and code, and assistance from others to handle the myriad of tasks managing the imagery, testing, hosting, site development and deployment.