Definition: CERN, short for Conseil Europeen pour le Recherche Nucleaire (European Laboratory for Particle Physics), is a world renowned research center located in Geneva, Switzerland.
CERN is where Sir Tim Berners-Lee first developed the theory of HTML and the Web as a working prototype. For more on the history of the early Web, read The History of the World Wide Web.
Pronunciation: "sern"
Common Misspellings: SERN
Examples:
"CERN is where the Web really got started."
