CERN httpd

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CERN httpd was one of the earliest web server software programs, developed at CERN in the early 1990s to serve and test the first World Wide Web pages.

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W3C httpd 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf HTTP server
web server software
basedOn HTTP protocol
developer Ari Luotonen
CERN
Tim Berners-Lee
discontinued mid-1990s
firstReleaseVersion 0.x series
genre free software
implements Common Gateway Interface
inception 1990
early 1990s
influenced Apache HTTP Server (via mod_spdy and later modules)
surface form: Apache HTTP Server

NCSA HTTPd
latestReleaseDate mid-1990s
latestReleaseVersion 3.0A
license open source software
maintainedBy CERN
notableFor being one of the first web servers
being the first publicly available web server software
operatingSystem Unix-like systems
originallyCalled CERN httpd self-linksurface differs
surface form: W3C httpd
partOf early World Wide Web project at CERN
platform NeXT Inc.
surface form: NeXT computer

Unix workstations
programmingLanguage C
replacedBy Apache HTTP Server (via mod_spdy and later modules)
surface form: Apache HTTP Server

NCSA HTTPd
sourceCodeRepository https://github.com/w3c/httpd
status discontinued
supportsFeature CGI
HTTP content negotiation
access control
caching
configuration via text files
directory indexing
logging
proxy gateway mode
proxying
server-side includes (early forms)
virtual document trees
supportsProtocol HTTP/0.9
early HTTP/1.0 features
use serving early World Wide Web pages
testing early World Wide Web pages
usedAt CERN
usedFor hosting the first website at info.cern.ch
website https://www.w3.org/Daemon/

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CERN httpd originallyCalled CERN httpd self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: W3C httpd
Nexus relatedTo CERN httpd
subject surface form: WorldWideWeb