The First Web Server In America

Did you know that first Web Server in America was installed 22 years ago? That was almost a year after world's first web server was launched at CERN, Switzerland. It contained database of 300 000 research papers.
"Today, if you don't have access to the web, you're considered disadvantaged," says physicist Paul Kunz, who on Dec. 12, 1991, installed the first web server in America on an IBM mainframe computer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
Here's how SLAC default home page looked like (it was 1991, nobody knew HTML5 back then):
Image credit: SLAC

In a way, you could say that Paul Kunz built world's first search engine, for 300,000 high energy physics publications in a database called SLAC. It was pretty complicated to use; first of all you needed to have a mainframe account, and second, because of the language the database engine on mainframe used. Later on they added email interface to it, so people could query by email and get answers back via email. Query interpreter written in C was key to success - it translated the text entered by user into a language mainframe database could understand; making searching from database fairly easy to use for any user.


Read more: The Early World Wide Web at SLAC

First web server at CERN looked like this:
The label read: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"
Image credit: CERN

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