What You Didn’t Know about the World’s First Web Server
Every website in the world today is hosted on their web servers. Have you ever curious about what does the world’s first web server look like? What is the first web browser software? Who created it? Your questions are answered here.
The World’s First web server
(image by sbisson)
The world’s first web server and web browser are created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 using a NeXT Computer at CERN.
The label on the computer read “This machine is a server, DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!”
For your information, NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs after his forced resignation from Apple. NeXTSTEP, the operating system on NeXT computer, was the mother of Apple’s Mac OS X today.
The World’s First web browser
The world’s first web browser is WorldWideWeb (no spaces). It was look like the following, except that it has no inline images and grey scale:
A quick tour of the screen is available here.
My two cents
It is amazing how the small box in 20 years ago has changed our world today.
As far as I can remember, my first web surfing was at 1996-1997.. it has been more than 10 years from now. How about yours?