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CERN httpd

CERN httpd (later also known as W3C httpd) is an early, now discontinued, web server (HTTP) daemon originally developed at CERN from 1990 onwards by Tim Berners-Lee, Ari Luotonen[2] and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen.[1] Implemented in C, it was the first web server software.

Original author(s)

Tim Berners-Lee,
Ari Luotonen,
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

CERN / World Wide Web Consortium

24 December 1990 (1990-12-24)

3.0A / 15 July 1996 (1996-07-15)[1]

Unix, Unix-like

C

Web server, proxy server

MIT Copyright Statement with acknowledgement to CERN

www.w3.org/Daemon/

Comparison of web server software

Traffic Server

which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration

Web accelerator

which discusses client-side proxies

Proxy server

which discusses origin-side proxies

Reverse proxy

The historic W3C page for httpd

The historic web site in the W3C archive of November 1992

CERN republished her first website.