Yesterday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) dropped a staggering amount of raw data from the Large Hadron Collider on the internet for anyone to use: 300 terabytes worth. The data ...

A team at Switzerland-based research center CERN has rebuilt WorldWideWeb, the world's first browser created in 1990 for its researchers. Earlier this month a group of developers and designers ...

Twenty years ago today, the organization that created the World Wide Web made its underlying technology available to everyone on a royalty-free basis. To commemorate that occasion, the very first ...

Twenty-five years ago, the first Web page popped up online — and CERN has the link to prove that it was responsible for it, restoring it for the first time in decades less than two years ago.

Most of what CERN does sounds like the rarefied heights of sci-fi, accessible only to physicists with badges and pocket protectors, or academics who use esoteric software -- not to mere mortals like ...