The European Organization for Nuclear Research, commonly known as CERN, is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the border between France and Switzerland.
The World Wide Web began as a CERN project called ENQUIRE, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1989. Based on the concept of hypertext, the project was aimed at facilitating sharing information among researchers. The first website went on-line in 1991 and on 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone. Berners-Lee and Cailliau were jointly honored by the ACM in 1995 for their contributions to the development of the World Wide Web.
Prior to the Web’s development, CERN had been a pioneer in the introduction of Internet technology in Europe, beginning in the early 1980s.
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