| Developer(s) | CERN / World Wide Web Consortium |
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| Initial release | 24 December 1990 |
| Discontinued | 3.0A / July 15, 1996[1] |
| Development status | discontinued |
| Operating system | Unix, Unix-like |
| Available in | C |
| Type | Web server, proxy server |
| License | MIT Copyright Statement with acknowledgement to CERN |
| Website | http://www.w3.org/Daemon/ |
CERN httpd (later also known as W3C httpd) was a web server (HTTP) daemon originally developed at CERN from 1990 onwards by Tim Berners-Lee, Ari Luotonen[2] and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen.[1] Implemented in C, it was the first ever web server software[3] and went live on Christmas Day 1990.[4]
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CERN httpd was originally developed on a NeXT Computer running NeXTSTEP, and was later ported to other Unix-like operating systems and OpenVMS. It could also be configured as a web proxy server.[1][3] Version 0.1 was released in June 1991.[5] In August 1991, Berners-Lee announced in the Usenet newsgroup alt.hypertext the availability of the source code of the server daemon and other World Wide Web software from the CERN FTP site.[6]
The original, first generation HTTP server which some call the Volkswagen of the Web.[7]
The server was presented on the Hypertext 91 conference in San Antonio and was part of the CERN Program Library (CERNLIB).[8][9][10]
Later versions of the server are based on the libwww library.[2] The development of CERN httpd was later taken over by W3C, with the last release being version 3.0A of 15 July 1996.[1] From 1996 onwards, W3C focused on the development of the Java-based Jigsaw server.[11]
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