First web server on the internet. (Boing Boing)
This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. Today, it is kept in Microcosm, the public museum at the Meyrin site of CERN, in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
The document resting on the keyboard is a copy of “Information Management: A Proposal,” which was Berners-Lee’s original proposal for the World Wide Web.
The label on the cube itself has the following text: “This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!”
gbattle sez:
I was a NeXT guru at the time. Mach-OS, the eventual basis of OS-X, was quite well done. However, I’m not 100% convinced that this is the first WWW machine. In terms of power, speed, graphics, this machine got killed by Sun, Silicon Graphics, IBM, etc.. However, the graphical OS was the most user friendly of the workstation set (though many Unix commands had dubious implementation on the NeXT at the time).
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