May 19, 2009: First Server

[xoxoxoBruce]

This is it, the root of all evil... the reason your house is a mess, the dirty laundry piled high, and your car overdue for an oil change.
Sitting in a glass case in Switzerland, at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), the European Council for Nuclear Research, is the world's first web server.

1990 was a momentous year in world events. In February, Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. In April, the space shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. And in October, Germany was reunified.
Then at the end of 1990, a revolution took place that changed the way we live today.

Berners-Lee created a browser-editor with the goal of developing a tool to make the Web a creative space to share and edit information and build a common hypertext. What should they call this new browser: The Mine of Information? The Information Mesh? When they settled on a name in May 1990, it was the WorldWideWeb.

After this humble beginning the scourge spread, slower than swine flu, but with a larger impact, by orders of magnitude.

During 1991 servers appeared in other institutions in Europe and in December 1991, the first server outside the continent was installed in the US at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). By November 1992, there were 26 servers in the world, and by October 1993 the figure had increased to over 200 known web servers. In February 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released the first version of Mosaic, which was to make the Web available to people using PCs and Apple Macintoshes.

... and the rest is Web history.

Of course during this development, the Cellar was patiently waiting for them to get their shit together, just so we could welcome YOU!

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