Research institute · founded 1954
CERN
SwitzerlandFranceComputing & ITCommunications
About
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, an intergovernmental particle-physics laboratory near Geneva.
Role in innovation
Where Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (1989–91) to share documents among scientists; CERN released the Web software into the public domain in 1993.
Associated inventions
Sources & further reading
Each citation names the publisher and the exact reference title.
- A short history of the WebCERN · Primary source
- World Wide Web Consortium — standards & historyW3C · Professional body
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