Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes - v3.13, by Herong Yang
WWW and First Web Server
This section provides a quick introduction of WWW (World Wide Web) and the first Web server developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.
What Is WWW (World Wide Web, the Web)? - WWW is an information network where users can view multi-media information with hyper links to click and view additional information. WWW was developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in 1991.
Main elements of WWW are:
The world's first Web page was published at this URL: http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html by Tim Berners-Lee on August 6, 1991.
Here is a picture of the NeXTcube computer used by Tim Berners-Lee to build the first Web server at CERN (Source: http://press.web.cern.ch/):
Table of Contents
2002 - .NET Framework Developed by Microsoft
1995 - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
1995 - Java Language Developed by Sun Microsystems
►1991 - WWW (World Wide Web) Developed by Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee - Father of the Web
Mosaic - The Browser Popularized the Web
Netscape Navigator - The Most Popular Web Browser in 1990s
Internet Explorer - The Most Popular Web Browser since 1999
Mozilla Firefox - The Most Popular Open Source Web Browser
1991 - Gopher Protocol Created by a University of Minnesota Team
1984 - X Window System Developed a MIT Team
1984 - Macintosh Developed by Apple Inc.
1983 - "Sendmail" Mail Transfer Agent Developed by Eric Allman
1979 - The Tcsh (TENEX C Shell) Developed by Ken Greer
1978 - Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) Developed by Brian Fox
1978 - The C Shell Developed by Bill Joy
1977 - The Bourne Shell Developed by Stephen Bourne
1977 - Apple II Designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
1976 - vi Text Editor Developed by Bill Joy
1974 - Internet by Vinton Cerf
1972 - C Language Developed by Dennis Ritchie
1971 - FTP Protocol Created by Abhay Bhushan
1970 - UNIX Operating System Developed by AT&T Bell Labs