The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire), known as CERN is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco-Swiss border (46°14?3?N 6°3?19?E? / ?46.23417°N 6.05528°E? / 46.23417; 6.05528), established in 1954
CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics researchIt is also noted for being the birthplace of the World Wide Web. The main site at Meyrin also has a large computer centre containing very powerful data processing facilities primarily for experimental data analysisAs an international facility, the CERN sites are officially under neither Swiss nor French jurisdiction. Member states' contributions to CERN for the year 2008 totalled CHF 1 billion (approximately € 664 millionThe convention establishing CERN was signed on 29 September 1954 by 11 countries in Western EuropeThe acronym CERN originally stood, in French, for Conseil Européen pour la .
...in 1954The World Wide Web began as a CERN project called ENQUIRE, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and Robert Cailliau in 1990. Berners-Lee and Cailliau were jointly honored by the Association for Computing Machinery in 1995 for their contributions to the development of the World Wide Web.
Based on the concept of hypertext, the project was aimed at facilitating sharing information among researchers. The first website went on-line in 1991. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone. A copy of the original first webpage, created by Berners-Lee, is still published on the World Wide Web Consortium's website as a historical document.Prior to the Web's development, CERN had been a pioneer in the introduction of Internet technology, beginning in the early 1980s..

Six experiments (CMS, ATLAS, LHCb, TOTEM, LHC-forward and ALICE) are currently being built, and will be running on the collider; each of them will study particle collisions under a different point of view, and with different technologies.
..The initial particle beams were injected into the LHC August 2008. The first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC was at 8 28 GMT on 10 September 2008,.... but the system went wrong, :) . because of a faulty magnet connection, and it was stopped for repairs on 19 September 2008. :) ......The LHC resumed its operation on 20 November 2009 by successfully circulating the beam again[,... and all of its four experiments recorded first collisions on 23 November 2009..