History to date
A few steps to date in the WWW project history are as follows:
- March 1989
- First project proposal written and circulated for comment
(TBL) . Paper "HyperText and CERN" (in ASCII or WriteNow format)
produced as background.
- October 1990
- Project proposal reformulated with encouragement from
CN and ECP divisional management. RC is co-author.
- November 1990
- Initial WorldWideWeb prototype developed on the NeXT
(TBL) .
- November 1990
- Nicola Pellow joins and starts work on the line-mode
browser . Bernd Pollermann helps get interface to CERNVM "FIND" index
running. TBL gives a colloquium on hypertext in general.
- Christmas 1990
- Line mode and NeXTStep browsers demonstrable. Acces
is possible to hypertext files, CERNVM "FIND", and internet news articles.
- Febraury 1991
- workplan for the purposes of ECP division.
- 26 February 1991
- Presentation of the project to the ECP group.
- March 1991
- Line mode browser (www) released to limited audience on
priam vax, rs6000, sun4.
- May 1991
- Workplan produced for CN/AS group
- 17 May 1991
- Presentation to C5 committee. General release of www on
central CERN machines.
- 12 June 1991
- CERN Computer Seminar on WWW.
- August 1991
- Files available on the net, posted on alt.hypertext (6,
16, 19th Aug), comp.sys.next (20th), comp.text.sgml and comp.mail.multi-media
(22nd). Jean-Francois Groff joins the project.
- October 1991
- VMS/HELP and WAIS gateways installed. Mailing lists
www-interest (now www-announce) and www-talk@info.cern.ch started.
One year status report. Anonymous telnet service started.
- December 1991
- Presented poster and demonstration at HT91 . W3 browser
installed on VM/CMS. CERN computer newsletter announces W3 to the
HEP world.
- 15 January 1992
- Line mode browser release 1.1 available by anonymous
FTP. See news . Presentation to AIHEP'92 at La Londe.
- 12 February 1992
- Line mode v 1.2 annouced on alt.hypertext, comp.infosystems,
comp.mail.multi-media, cern.sting, comp.archives.admin, and mailing
lists.
- May 1992
- Presentation and demo at JENC3 (Innsbruck). Carl Barker
joins the project.
- June 1992
- Presentation and demo at HEPVM (Lyon).
- July 1992
- Distribution of WWW through CernLib, including Viola. WWW
library code ported to DECnet. Report to the Advisory Board on Computing.
- August 1992
- introduction of CVS for code management.