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?
My first Web browsing was in 1995 with Netscape.
Cool.
My first web browsing was in 1998 with Netscape also ;)
my first web browsing in 2001
I was using NeXT in 1991 too. I wouldn’t exactly agree with this as the FIRST web browser. Actually before this one, I was using Text Based browser and it did reach every part of the world too ( USA and limited in Europe only back then)
yeah… love NeXT too back then, in ’92.. way advance compared to PCs with windows3 & os/2. but I ended up cozying more with PowerMacs immediately after that. And 17 yrs later, I’m still with Steve Job’s stuff – macbook pro :)
Back in ’93, I was using NCSA Mosaic, lynx and MacWeb (netscape got out months later as 0.9b, and only couple yrs later when Microsoft finally introduced Internet Explorer in win95 – repackaged from Mosaic).
As far as i remember, my first internet browsing, early 1997 with my acer desktop intel pentium 1 2xx mhz, 16mb of ram, 3gb hard disk, windows 95. that time i was in standard 4. lol.
My first browsing was in 1993-1994 in the University. Mosaic was the browser and the pages was text-based mainly with a few graphics. And I also remember that we stayed some nights (all night on) in the University chatting on IRC and testing programs (daemons and other stuffs) by using small terminals with one-color displays. Wow, what a wonderful time.
my first web experience was in 1998 using Netscape and was using ICQ for chat all the time :P
At that time of 1995, I used Internet Explorer to browse the net.
Steve Jobs invented the www . Who would have thought?!
:)
I don’t think Steve Jobs would have known the emergence of the Internet. But he sure has been an explorer and pioneer for the Internet.
After checking through it, i didn’t find any law blog listed there.
I guess not many want to read blog contains law related topics.
Aiyah…no hope for me man! hahah!