History of the W3 project
History
A summary of the history of the project so far.
- March 1989
- Tim Berners-Lee circulates "Information Management: A Proposal" at
CERN, suggesting a hypertext system to keep track of the laboratory's
people, projects and documents. His boss writes on it: "Vague but
exciting".
- October 1990
- Work starts on a NeXT computer. The names WorldWideWeb, HTML, HTTP
and the first browser/editor are invented in the following two months.
- December 1990
- The first web server, nxoc01.cern.ch (later info.cern.ch), and the
first browser are running. The first web page describes the project
itself.
- March 1991
- The Line Mode Browser, written by Nicola Pellow, allows access from
any terminal. The system is given to CERN colleagues to try.
- August 1991
- The project is announced on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, and the
software is made available by anonymous FTP. People outside CERN start
to run servers.
- 1992
- Browsers for X11 (Erwise, Viola) appear; there are a few dozen
servers in the world.
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