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Next big thing on Web ��� Grid...developed the first blueprint of the internet. With domain names in Hindi, Arabic and Chinese set to become a reality on the Web, pundits in Switzerland claim the next giant leap will be the grid, which is just weeks away from powering up. In this article: CERN, Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, Information superhighway, Cloud computing, Switzerland, and Geneva |
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Indiana Times - The Economic Times | October 15, 2009
Slashes a mistake: Web inventor
...Foundation, and hosted in the Finnish Embassy in Washington DC. Sir Tim invented the Web while working at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland 20 years ago. In his spare time, he developed a revolutionary idea of linking...
In this article: Tim Berners Lee, World Wide Web, Washington, All rights reserved, and CERN
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Sunday Mirror | September 28, 2009
What did we do before gadgets?
...launches its first satellite TV service. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, writes a memo setting out the idea for what would become the World Wide Web. 1998 The first mp3 digital music players go...
In this article: Walkman, IPod, World Wide Web, and Guinea pig
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Daily Mail | September 18, 2009
No email, iPod, not even a freezer ... sounds like Life On Mars, only this time a family is challenged to live in 1970s techno time-warp
...first satellite TV service. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, writes a memo setting out the idea for what would become the World Wide Web, the basis of modern internet use. 1991 The first text message is...
In this article: IPod, Apple, Sony, UK, World Wide Web, and Sony Walkman
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Reuters | February 12, 2009
Royal watchers can track British Queen on website
...site, first launched in 1997. The Queen will inaugurate it at a Buckingham Palace reception with scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web while working at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland. The Queen sent her first email...
In this article: World Wide Web, World War Two, Google map, CERN, YouTube, Tim Berners-Lee, and Buckingham Palace
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OSNews | May 31, 2008
Browser Benchmark: IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari
...on Sat 31st May 2008 18:25 UTC, submitted by Jaikrishnan Janardhanan The first webpage was served off a NeXTcube at CERN, Switzerland, developed by Tim Berners-Lee. He also wrote the first web browser, confusingly named WorldWideWeb - the...
In this article: Safari, Firefox, JavaScript, Zdnet, Firefox 3, Internet Explorer, HTML, XML, NeXTcube, and WorldWideWeb
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | September 02, 2009
Internet celebrates 40th birthday: but what date should we be marking?
...posting and accessing information. Berners-Lee, a British scientist based in Cerne, Switzerland, helped create the hypertext-based internet of web pages, links and browsers that is still in use today. April 1993 The launch of Mosaic,...
In this article: UCLA, Mosaic, Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, Netscape Navigator, DVD, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft
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Guardian | June 10, 2009
Web inventor to help No 10 open up government data
...technologies behind the world wide web in the early 90s while working at the particle collider laboratory at Cern in Switzerland: he was trying to devise a method that would allow researchers to get easy access to documents for a future...
In this article: Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, TED, JavaScript, CERN, Gordon Brown, and US
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The 50 most influential Britons in technology: part two
...our digitally connected world, tops the list of most influential British technologists. Since the web went live in Switzerland in 1990 he has been a respected academic and still wields control of the World Wide Web Consortium, the body that...
In this article: Tim Berners-Lee, Jonathan Ive, Martha Lane Fox, Microsoft, and Peter Mandelson
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Seattle Times | March 16, 2009
World Wide Web is 20 this month
...Web is 20 this month Twenty years ago this month, Tim Berners-Lee, then a researcher at Conseil Europien pour la Recherche Nucliaire (CERN), in Switzerland, handed in his proposal for a new kind of computer network. It was a technical...
In this article: Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, Netscape, Microsoft, CERN, Google, Mosaic, Wikipedia, and EBay
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Description from Wikipedia:
Switzerland (German: die Schweiz la Suisse, Svizzera, Svizra), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a landlocked alpine country of roughly 7.7 million people (2009) in Central Europe with an area of 41,285 km². Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states, called cantons. Bern is the seat of the federal authorities, while the country's economic centres are its two global cities, Geneva and Zürich. Switzerland is one of the richest countries in the world by per capita gross domestic product, with a nominal per capita GDP of $67,384. Zürich and Geneva have respectively been ranked as having the second and third highest quality of life in the world.
Switzerland is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. The country has a long history of neutrality—it has not been at war internationally since 1815—and hosts many international organisations, including the Red Cross, the World Trade Organization and one of the U.N.'s two European offices. It is not a member of the European Union, but it is part of the Schengen Agreement.
Switzerland is multilingual and has four national languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh. The country's formal name is Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft in German, Confédération suisse in French, Confederazione Svizzera in Italian and Confederaziun svizra in Romansh. The establishment of Switzerland is traditionally dated to 1 August 1291; Swiss National Day is celebrated on the anniversary.
- Name:
- Switzerland
- Conventional Long Name:
- Swiss Confederation
- Capital:
- 20px Bern
- Motto:
- Un pour tous, tous pour un
- Largest City:
- |20px Zürich
- Government type:
- Direct democracy
- Legislature:
- Federal Assembly
- Upper House:
- Council of States
- Lower House:
- National Council
- Founding Date:
- October 24, 1648
- Formations:
- Foundation date
- Area:
- 41,284
- GDP (per capita PPP):
- $312.753 billion
- GDP (per capita PPP) Rank:
- 7th
- GDP (nominal):
- $492.595 billion
- GDP (nominal per capita) Rank:
- 4th
- GDP (nominal per capita):
- $67,384
- Time Zone:
- CET
- Currency:
- Swiss franc
- Demonym:
- Swiss
- Drives On:
- right
- Currency (code):
- CHF
- Country Calling Code:
- +41
- ccTLD:
- .ch
- Anthem:
- "Schweizerpsalm"
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