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CERN web server

The first web server, the one that answered the very first request.

Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web server at CERN. On 30 April 1993 CERN placed httpd, the line-mode browser, and libwww in the public domain.

Tim Berners-Lee. httpd, the line-mode browser, and libwww.

Public domain

Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web server at CERN, the machine that answered the very first request. On 30 April 1993 CERN placed httpd, the line-mode browser, and libwww in the public domain, and the web stopped belonging to one lab.

The bars follow the opening of HTHandle, the routine that picks up a connection. A line of code is a bar, its color is what the line does, and its indent is the column the source already had. This is the web at its first breath.

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