http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Some background from CERN:
The name CERN is derived from the acronym for the French "Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire", or European Council for Nuclear Research, a provisional body founded in 1952 with the mandate of establishing a world-class fundamental physics research organization in Europe.
The story told by CERN:
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web
This IS history.
