The web as we know it was born in this month, 13 years ago

   Today in web history ... thirteen years ago, on December 6, 1993:

   Roy Fielding proposed what may have been the first web "spider" or
"robot." Although his purpose was to create a basic link-checking
tool, this laid the groundwork for today's search engines like Google:

<http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1993q4.messages/710.html>

   Also in web history, on December 4, 1993:

   Rob McCool wrote the first draft of the CGI specification, a key
step that made it possible for web pages to be dynamic and
interactive:

<http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1993q4.messages/681.html>

   And finally, on December 12, 1993 - just after the momentous events above:

   Rob McCool announced the release of NCSA httpd, which later became
Apache, the webserver that today powers over half of the world's
websites:

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www/msg/aff69cde299b6995>

   And to think that this activity all took place between Thanksgiving
and Christmas! :-)

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

P.S. Roy Fielding proposed his web robot as a graduate class project,
while Rob McCool was an *undergraduate* when he made his
contributions to the Web.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following was automatically added to this message by the list server:

For information about Micronet, including subscribing to
or unsubscribing from its mailing list and finding out
about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site:
<http://micronet.berkeley.edu/>.
Received on Wed Dec 06 2006 - 19:49:13 PST