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The ACM Web Conference (formerly known as International World Wide Web Conference, abbreviated as WWW) is a yearly international academic conference on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web. The first conference of many was held and organized by Robert Cailliau in 1994 at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference has been ...
Cailliau had lobbied inside CERN, and at conferences like the ACM Hypertext Conference in 1991 (in San Antonio) and 1993 (in Seattle). After returning from the Seattle conference, he announced the new World Wide Web Conference 1. [9] Coincidentally, the NCSA announced their Mosaic and the Web conference 23 hours later. [9]
He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994 [2] and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995. [3] He is listed as co-author of How the Web Was Born by James Gillies, the first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web.
The web as we know it was famously invented by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN, but it wasn't until a few years later -- 1993 to be precise -- that it'd truly be set free. On April 30 of ...
The World Wide Web began to enter everyday use in 1993, helping to grow the number of websites to 130 by the end of the year. [2] In 1994, websites for the general public became available. [ 2 ] By the end of 1994, the total number of websites was 2,278, including several notable websites and many precursors of today's most popular services.
How the Web was born : the story of the World Wide Web. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-286207-3. OCLC 43377073. Herman, Andrew; Swiss, Thomas (2000). The World Wide Web and contemporary cultural theory. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92501-0. OCLC 44446371. Schafer, Valérie; Thierry, Benjamin G. (2018).
The IW3C2 organizes and hosts the annual World Wide Web Conference in conjunction with the W3C. [3] [1] [2] [5] The IW3C2 was founded by Joseph Hardin and Robert Cailliau at a meeting held in Boston, United States, on 14 August 1994 to prepare for the upcoming Second International World Wide Web Conference in Chicago. [4]
The server was presented on the Hypertext 91 conference in San Antonio and was part of the CERN Program Library (CERNLIB). [4] [7] Later versions of the server are based on the libwww library. [2] The development of CERN httpd was later taken over by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), with the last release being version 3.0A of 15 July 1996. [1]