30 April: CERN gives the Web to the world, and a bowl of Basler Mehlsuppe
On 30 April 1993 CERN, the physics lab on the Swiss border at Geneva, gave the World Wide Web software to the world for free. We click through to Switzerland's Basler Mehlsuppe, a soup built from almost nothing: browned flour, onion and stock.
Soup of the day
Basler Mehlsuppe
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Basler Mehlsuppe is a brown flour soup from Basel in Switzerland. Flour is toasted slowly in a dry pan or in butter, stirring all the time, until it is a deep hazelnut brown and smells nutty.
Read about Basler Mehlsuppe and get the recipe →What happened
CERN puts the World Wide Web software into the public domain, free for anyone to use.
Why this soup
CERN is in Switzerland; this is a Swiss soup (country link only).
Sources
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