I've heard it was invented in either the netherlands or germany....I can't remember. I may be wrong on both, but some scientists somewhere invented the method for communicating via http....I 'think'.
I heard it was CERN those crazy fools somewhere in the Netherlands (I think :-s) you know, the ones with that massive underground tube that they're using to try and find the "god" particle, by firing electrons at each other or something.