CERN httpd

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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, OpenVMS and systems with unix emulation layers, e.g. OS/2 with emx+gcc. It could also be configured as a web proxy server.

Version 0.1 was released in June 1991.[http://www.w3.org/Daemon/Features.html Change History for httpd]

In August 1991, Berners-Lee announced in the Usenet newsgroup alt.hypertext the availability of the source code of the server daemon (named WWWDaemon) and other World Wide Web software from the CERN FTP site.{{cite web|title=Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web – Web development|url=http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_lee.htm#dev|access-date=26 July 2010|first=Bill|last=Stewart|publisher=Living Internet}}{{Cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.next.announce/c/avWAjISncfw?pli=1|title=WorldWideWeb wide-area hypertext app available|author=Tim Berners Lee|publisher=CERN|date=1991-08-20|access-date=2021-11-15|language=en}}

{{quote box|width = 200px|The original, first generation HTTP server which some call the Volkswagen of the Web.{{cite web|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium|access-date=23 January 2011|url=http://www.w3.org/Status#CERN|title=W3C Open Source Software – CERN Server|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211145111/http://www.w3.org/Status#CERN|archive-date=11 February 2012|url-status=dead}}}}

The server was presented on the Hypertext 91 conference in San Antonio and was part of the CERN Program Library (CERNLIB).{{cite web|title=A Short History of the Web|url=http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/robert_cailliau_speech.htm |publisher=NetValley|access-date=21 July 2010|author=Robert Cailliau|date=21 July 2010}}

Later versions of the server are based on the libwww library.{{cite web|title=Why Libwww?|url=http://www.w3.org/Library/Activity.html|access-date=15 June 2010|date=5 August 1999|first=José|last=Kahan|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium}} The development of CERN httpd was later taken over by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), with the last release being version 3.0A of 15 July 1996. From 1996 onwards, W3C focused on the development of the Java-based Jigsaw server.{{cite web|last=Baird-Smith|first=Anselm|title=W3C Activity: The CERN server|url=http://www.w3.org/Daemon/Activity.html|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium|access-date=21 July 2010|date=April 1996|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213113845/http://www.w3.org/Daemon/Activity.html|archive-date=13 February 2012|url-status=dead}}

The initial version was public domain software; the last one was under an MIT License.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140817185526/http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birth-web/licensing-web The birth of the web Licensing the web] on cern.ch (2014, archived)

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• Apache Traffic Server
• Web accelerator, which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration
• Proxy server, which discusses client-side proxies
• Reverse proxy, which discusses origin-side proxies

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• [https://www.w3.org/Daemon/ The historic W3C page for httpd]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20170926223430/http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/Basic.html The historic web site in the W3C archive of November 1992]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150717103715/http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html CERN republished her first website.]

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