#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