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13th March is an auspicious day in the history of computing; 20 years ago, British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, ("CERN"), wrote his proposal for a system to enable physicists and other scientists to share information; this proposal for a common language and search facilities grew into the hypertext mark-up language ("HTML") language which forms the basis of today's worldwide web.