Twenty years ago today Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and his team at CERN, made the WWW free for public use. The software, developed on a NeXT cube, that made the World Wide Web possible was then called WorldWideWeb, later to be called httpd, which we know of today as the Apache Web Server (Microsoft and others would join in later with IIS and other technologies). So, give a server a pat on the back today and tell it, “jolly good show, ole chap” for giving us all gainful employment here in IT.
Read more at Gizmodo, including a link to the original WWW page at its original url:
http://gizmodo.com/twenty-years-ago-today-the-world-wide-web-went-public-485593843
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