Founded in 1954, the
CERN Laboratory sits astride the Franco–Swiss border near Geneva. It was one of
Europe’s first joint ventures and now has 20 Member States.
Founded in 1954, the CERN Laboratory sits astride the Franco–Swiss border near
Geneva. It was one of Europe’s first joint ventures and now has 20 Member
States. CERN has established a reputation at the forefront of research,
proven through its experiments, past and present. The Laboratory is a vibrant
meeting place for discussion and debate; around half of the world’s particle
physicists come here for their research. This is reflected in the experiments,
which are usually run by international collaborations, bringing together teams
of physicists from different institutes towards a common goal. Tim Berners-Lee
is known now as the
father of HTML
FYI: Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. While he was at CERN he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. After graduating he spent two years with Plessey Telecommunications, Ltd., a major UK Telecom equipment manufacturer, working on distributed transaction systems, message relays, and bar code technology. For a year and a half he was an independent consultant and during this time he spent six months as consultant software engineer at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. While there, he wrote, for his own private use, his first program for storing information including using random associations. This program was named "Enquire", and was never published. This program formed the conceptual basis for the future development of the World Wide Web.
What is HTML? What is it? Why do we need it? Where did it come from?
HTML is a universal computer
language developed by Tim Berners-Lee that allows Web publishers to create complex pages of text and images
that can be viewed by anyone else on the Web. The actual definition of HTML is
Hypertext Markup Language. Hypertext is the method used to allow you to move
around on the web. If you click on a special text called a Hyperlink it will
take you to a new page. Markup is what HTML tags do to the text inside them.
Credits: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html, and http://www.cern.ch/, and http://www.cern.ch/user/Welcome.asp