CERN recreates world's first web page

The name CERN is derived from the acronym form the French Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire or European Council for Nuclear Research, a provisional body founded in 1952 with the mandate of establishing a world-class fundamental physics research organization in Europe. At that time, pure physics research concentrated on understanding the inside of the atom, hence the word "nuclear"

The CERN said it had begun recreating the website that launched that world wide web, as well as the hardware that made the groundbreaking technology possible.

world's first website was about the technology itself, according to CERN, allowing early browsers to learn about the new system and create their own web pages.


While CERN was not promoting any specific ideology, "we want to preserve that idea of openness and freedom to collect and collaborate,"

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