Most of CSS1 was hammered out on a whiteboard in Sophia-Antipolis in July 1995. Bert is still working for W3C in Sophia-Antipolis.

Fredrik Linaker, head of the AMORP project at Accenture’s research centre in Sofia Antipolis, France, likens the project to “physical-world hyperlinking”.

Kolpi, a French company based in Sophia Antipolis, has devised a 3-d display that will allow oil-exploration companies to direct their remotely operated submarines.