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CERN's phone # has a Swiss prefix,

  +41 22 76 761 11

their physical address and entrance are in Switzerland,

  CERN CH-1211
  Genève 23
  Switzerland

and their website is a .ch

  http://cern.ch/

but the web was invented in France since one building was in France?

As a Swiss citizen I'm not buying it!

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It's not only one building!

Most of LHC ring is in France. The second biggest accelerator, the SPS, is almost entirely in France too. The CERN Control Center, where all accelerators are operated, is in the CERN's site of Prevessin, in France. Out of the four main LHC experiments, three are in France...

Still, to simplify we usually say CERN is just in Switzerland.

It's somewhat funny (but also convenient) that we use Swiss electricity plugs, and Swiss cell-phone network coverage all over CERN.

Restaurant 2 is also in France, but they still ask for CHF. And yes, most "coders" are polish and alike (ie. Eastern labourers), not Swiss citizens. The latter would not put up with the work conditions, despite the PR.

"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y)" [where Y>X] src: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report

ISBN: 9290831693 http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264

>The latter would not put up with the work conditions

CERN has poor working conditions?

not for westerners.

>As a Swiss citizen I'm not buying it!

Drop the nationalism, the world will become a better place.

But geographically speaking, it seems that it was indeed invented in France.

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