Friday, December 12, 2014
This month marks 20 years since the Web’s public announcement in several online forums and the release
Early Web Browsers
LibWWW was written by main Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and his technical assistant Jean-François Groff. The browsers it enabled included the Viola browser by Pei Wei, the Midas browser by Tony Johnson, and, later, the famous Mosaic browser by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at NCSA.
Other important Web anniversaries are the first Web proposal (March 1989) and the first demo browser, server, and Web site (December 1990).
To mark 20 years of the public Web, we are releasing this mini-movie from our permanent “Revolution” exhibition online for the first time:
Further Reading
Internet History Program
CHM’s Internet History Programpreserves materials on the history of computer networking including the Web, the Internet, and the ideas that led up to them. Launched in 2009 by founding curator Marc Weber, this is one of the first programs of its kind at a major historical institution. The scope includes both technical history and impact on society. You can help the program identify materials world wide in need of preservation including software, screenshots, and oral histories.
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