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Everybody says the World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland.
Oddly, however, the CERN campus straddles the France-Switzerland border, and building 31 at CERN where Berners-Lee did his web inventing is actually on the French side of the border.
http://davidgalbraith.org/uncategorized/the-exact-location-where-the-web-was-invented/2343/