A Little History

1989

Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a networked Hypertext project for High-Energy Physics collaborations

1990

The system is available on the NeXTStep operating system Further proposal for a Hypertext project for CERN The name World-Wide Web is decided

1991

The universally portable LMB (Line-Mode Browser) is distributed Work starts on a Macintosh version We demonstrate at the San Antonio Hypertext Conference An X-Window browser is urgent.

1992

people at SLAC, FNAL, NIKHEF, DESY join with servers

1993

NCSA releases X-Mosaic, colour images arrive! We lose authoring Work starts on a PC version NCSA releases Mac and PC versions of Mosaic WWW becomes the Internet demo HEP uses WWW intensively

1994

CommerceNet started First International Conference Overtake Gopher traffic European Commission project NetScape "buys up" all manpower Total shock wave Driving the Internet expansion Second International Conference Tim leaves for MIT

1995

European development is transferred from CERN to INRIA WWW/Internet fuse in the minds of non-specialists WWW at the basis of the special G7 conference in Brussels CERN WWW Days Third International Conference First regional conference Fourth International Conference

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