#Notes from Frank Ruskey's Webology (CSc586) course
WWW - An Abridged History
- March 1989
- Tim Berners-Lee proposes Web concept to CERN. Initial purpose was sharing of academic material.
- Nov 1990
- Initial WWW prototype developed on NeXT
- Dec 1990
- First line mode browsers demonstrated
- Aug 1991
- WWW files released to net
- Oct 1991
- Anonymous Web telnet service started
- 15 Jan 1992
- Line mode browser 1.1 available
- 12 Feb 1992
- Line mode browser 1.2 available
- Jan 1993
- Midas, Viola, CERN Macintosh browser and XMosaic alphas.
50 known HTTP servers.
- Mar 1993
- WWW reaches 0.1% of NSF backbone traffic
- Sep 1993
- NCSA releases Mosaic for X, Windows, Macintosh
WWW reaches 1% of NSF backbone traffic
- Oct 1993
- 500 known HTTP servers
- Mar 1994
- Marc Andressen and colleages leave NCS for commercial venture (Netscape)
- May 1994
- First International WWW conference
- June 1994
- Over 1500 registered HTTP servers