History of the Web Development Community
"It's like the difference between the brain and the mind.
Explore the Internet and you find cables and computers.
Explore the Web and you find information."
- Tim Berners-Lee (NY Times, 12/8/93)
See also the
CERN WWW Project History
March 1989
Tim Berners-Lee invents WWW-as-concept while trying to
coordinate projects at CERN
November 1990
TimBL develops a NeXT-based graphical browser/editor
and line-mode browser
1991
WWW introduced at CERN
Gateways to existing services written
WWW mailing lists established
1992
TimBL publishes several articles and gives many talks on
the Web and its use in the HEP community
mid 1992
Dave Thompson demos WWW to NCSA developers
January 1993
Midas (Tony Johnson) and Viola (Pei Wei) browsers available.
NCSA's Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina release first alpha version of XMosaic
April 1993
Mosaic 1.0 for X-Windows released
May 1993
Honolulu Community College (Kevin Hughes) places first
fully-hypermedia CWIS on the Web
June 1993
Roy starts using the Web for finding freeware and NZ info
August 1993
First WWW developers conference at Cambridge, Mass.
September 1993
NCSA httpd (Rob McCool) released
November 1993
Hypertext conference in Seattle
Official release of Mosaic 2.0 for X/Mac/Windows
Roy starts developing MOMspider for Mark Ackerman's class
December 8, 1993
NCSA Mosaic gets business first page, NY Times (C1)
14 January 1994
wwwstat released -- first working system for publishing
access statistics as HTML;
getstats follows soon after.
March 1994
WWW byte traffic surpasses Gopher -- doubles every four months for over a year
Mosaic (later Netscape) Communications founded
May 1994
First International WWW conference in Geneva
14 June 1994
libwww-perl released, begins collaborative project
10 August 1994
public release of MOMspider
October 1994
Second International WWW Conference in Chicago
Netscape releases first Mozilla beta
Roy begins work on HTTP specification for IETF
December 1994
San Jose IETF
W3 Consortium gets under way
CERN exits the scene
European WWW development moved to Inria
April 1995
Danvers IETF
Third International WWW Conference in Darmstadt
"It's as if the Library of Congress had exploded in midair.
There's all kinds of information strewn over the countryside,
approximately laid out according to its logical relationship."
- David Brooks (comp.infosystems.www.misc, 2/95)
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Behind the curtains: How the Web was/is/will be created
Roy Fielding
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
Last modified: 20 Oct 1995