Eli5: What advancements have been made as a direct result of the use of particle accelerators?

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I recently saw a Cleo Abrams video about particle accelerators and the lead scientist said that they use particle accelerators to create the building blocks for future innovations.

I’m sure advancements have been made only because particle accelerators exist but I don’t know any. Can someone highlight a direct influence particle accelerators have on our daily lives?

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The need to collate and dissiminate the huge amounts of data and research generated at the CERN accelerator led to the creation of the world wide web. This let even ordinary people create websites and/or share things such as vidoes over the internet which has annoyed a lot of people.

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