Overview The current development of the internet was down to a project based in CERN, a Swiss research centre. The project’s main purpose to enable physicists to send research papers and experiment results to each other. This article briefly describes the three technologies, HTML, HTTP and browser software, which were developed by the project and why they are so important today. Where it all started CERN, (Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire), or European Organization for Nuclear Research is one of the world’s leading scientific research centre.  Currently it is most famous as the home of the  Large Hadron Collider, which is investigating how the universe was created after the Big Bang. The centre has always been of great interest to physicists throughout the world.  In the pre-Internet world research papers and experimental results would have to be either printed or using fairly primitive electronic communication. And then the World Wide Web was born A number of people were looking at ways of improving the communication between the researchers.  The amount of research data was huge and was too unwieldy to be printed. Techniques, such as gopher, ( a way of copying information on one computer and transferring it to another), were often difficult, as the the two computer systems could work in different ways, (called protocols), and it often required quite a lot of technical knowledge to perform a simple conversion to enable those at the receiving end Continue Reading