Year: 1990 ARCHIVED
Documentation and preservation of the earliest publicly accessible web resources, CERN experiments, and foundational HTTP experiments from the year the World Wide Web was proposed.
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info.cern.ch
1990-12-25
First Web Server Homepage
The original index.html served by the world's first web server (httpd), running on a NeXT workstation at CERN. Contains instructions for getting web software.
www.w3.org/History/1990
1990-08-06
Web Proposal Draft
Tim Berners-Lee's original proposal for an information management system. Includes early concepts of hypertext, linking, and the Mosaic editor/browser.
nxoc01.inria.fr
1990-11-12
INRIA Research Portal
Early academic web presence from the French research institute. Features basic text navigation and links to physics department publications.
info.cern.ch/hypertext
1990-12-20
HyperText Reference
Documentation on the HyperText Transfer Protocol and early link resolution algorithms. Foundation for what would become W3C standards.
info.cern.ch/people
1990-09-15
CERN Group Directory
Internal directory listing for CERN research groups. One of the first uses of the web for organizational information sharing.
home.cern/~robinson
1990-10-03
Researcher Homepage
Personal workspace of a CERN physicist. Contains links to particle physics papers, conference schedules, and early web tool documentation.
www.slac.stanford.edu
1990-12-30
SLAC Physics Web
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's early web experiment. Hosts conference abstracts and experimental data sets accessible via HTTP.
Historical Context: 1990
Mar 1990
WorldWideWeb Browser
Tim Berners-Lee releases the first graphical web browser, also serving as an editor, running on NeXTSTEP.
Aug 1990
Web Proposal Published
The foundational document outlining HTTP, HTML, and URI specifications is circulated among CERN researchers.
Nov 1990
First Web Server
httpd launches on NeXT computer #3 (neXT01) at CERN. Serves the first web pages over internal network.
Dec 25 1990
Public Access
The web becomes available to the public on the CERN network. First external HTTP requests are logged.