CERN turns 54 today!
Back in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau initiated a project called ENQUIRE at CERN which was the beginning of the World Wide Web. A copy of the original first webpage, created by Berners-Lee, is kept here (time warp SFX).
The facts are these:
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (or CERN - I know, I know - it should be called EONR right? Well the acronym is French, so stick that in your router and pipe it.) is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the border between France and Switzerland.
Based on the concept of hypertext, the project was aimed at facilitating sharing information among researchers (now look at us). The first website went on-line in 1991. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone (Net Neutrality!!!!!).
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