CERN httpd (1990 - 1996)

cern httpd was the first web server. tim berners-lee wrote it on a next machine at cern and for six years it was the program that answered when something asked for a page. later versions could also sit in front of a network as a caching proxy, which is a second first nobody credits it with. the w3c released version 3.0a on 15 july 1996 and stopped there, moving its attention to a java server…