CERN claims to have created the world wide web. Tote and one of his Turkish grad students are not buying my argument that CERN's contribution to creating the WWW was not so big. I am saying that the WWW simply combined hypertext, which was new but not uncommon (macs came with a hypertext program in 1987) and the internet, which had been around for a very long time. CERN's contribution was merely to create a protocol (HTML) to share text files containing hypertext on the internet. (It wasn't even the only protocol -- an early competitor was called gopher.)
And the web didn't exist in the form that most people think of it until the first graphic browser was created. That allowed images to be integrated with text. It was only then that the web took over from other ways of sharing information on the internet.
So, I'm saying, arguably the web didn't exist until a graphic browser was created, and whatever CERN contributed was actually minor.
But, of course, as you can see from their expressions, they did not agree with me.