BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band lyrics notwithstanding, yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the birth of the World Wide Web.

The Web was invented in Switzerland. At the CERN laboratory near Geneva. The acronym CERN originally stood in French for Conseil Europen pour laRecherche Nuclaire (European Council for Nuclear Research). The name has since changed, but the acronym has stuck. Continue reading →