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# The Universe Project becomes WorldWide Telescope  The Worldwide Telescope was started by amateur astronomer Curtis Wong (and 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 nebula. 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’ 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.   More years passed and 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 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.   Jim and Alex were working on the data pipeline and query processing for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as making that data widely available to astronomers and the public through a website called SkyServer which was the next incarnation of Teraserver but pointed up. Curtis worked on designing Skyserver and realized that all the elements were finally becoming available to create his astronomy project. He 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 the PowerPoint presentation) Many of the participants volunteered to help advise on access to other sources of imagery and data.