This month signals the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web - more commonly known as the documents which are linked together by the internet.

Scientists at Cern - the European Organisation for Nuclear Research and home to the Large Hadron Collider - were the first to get the system up and running in 1989, alongside de facto creator of the web Tim Berners-Lee.

Mr Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor, Mike Sendall, entitled Information Management: A Proposal.

Luckily, despite describing the system as "vague but exciting", Mr Sendall still gave Mr Berners-Lee the chance to set the system up for a series of tests.

A presentation and celebration will take place in the Globe at Cern in Switzerland tonight.

The Globe itself is described as an "emblem for Cern, serving science and innovation" and is around the same size as the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City.

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