CERN httpd

The CERN httpd (later also W3C httpd ) was the first web server. The name httpd is an abbreviation for " http daemon ". It was developed from 1990 to 1996 at CERN and at the W3C.

History

Tim Berners -Lee began in September 1990 at CERN in Geneva ( Switzerland ) with the development, simultaneously with the first web browser and editor. Christmas 1990 was the first website http://info.cern.ch/ with CERN httpd on Berners- Lee's NeXT computer started up.

In 1991, the CERN httpd was made ​​available ( in the package with the line mode browser and a library ) of the high energy physics community, which he has also been used outside of CERN at universities and research institutions.

In August 1991, the package has been widely published by Berners -Lee alt.hypertext sent a message with the download address to the newsgroup in which he, inter alia, pointed out that the web server can also be used as a Web interface to z. example for all to enjoy content from databases (this feature was Berners- Lee in 1989 in the first draft of the Web project was highlighted as critical to success ). Then began the international spread of the Web. In December 1991, the first web server went live in the U.S. at SLAC.

In August 1993, Ari Luotonen joined the WWW project team at CERN httpd and expanded to include features such as the availability as a proxy ( with caching) and password protection for Web content ( October 93 ).

In November 1993, the support for Web forms and clickable images and / htbin came as an interface for server-side script to it; the latter was replaced in February 1994 by the CGI - an example of the distinct dynamics of development at that time.

After the founding of the W3C in 1994 this also took over the development of the CERN httpd, which was from then on known as " W3C httpd ". On 15 July 1996 the last version 3.0A was generated and set the development with it. The W3C turned instead to the development of the recently published follow-up project Jigsaw.