[HN Gopher] The First Web Server
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       The First Web Server
        
       Author : giuliomagnifico
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2025-12-26 11:12 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (dfarq.homeip.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (dfarq.homeip.net)
        
       | belter wrote:
       | Source Code of the Server:
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       | https://www.w3.org/Daemon/
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       | https://www.w3.org/Daemon/Implementation/
        
         | simonw wrote:
         | Love that note at the top of the page:
         | 
         | > We no longer maintain the CERN httpd. In particular, there is
         | at least one known Y2K-related bug in the latest (July 1996)
         | release of this software.
        
       | TeaVMFan wrote:
       | Sir Berners-Lee tells the story himself in this great memoir:
       | https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/tim-berners-lee/this-is...
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       | Lots of detail and inside stories about the work it took to keep
       | the web open and free.
        
         | belter wrote:
         | The title of the book reminds me of the end of "Roadside
         | Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky...
        
       | Kim_Bruning wrote:
       | https://info.cern.ch/
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       | Site is still up. (ish)
        
       | rapnie wrote:
       | Fun fact, in my student group at university of twente two people
       | claimed to have developed the first web server for Windows. They
       | called it W4Server and at fist thought of erecting a company
       | called Antelope Software, but later prioritised their studies and
       | let it drop. Another fun fact is that on a web search the first
       | result is a CVE relating to their work. But it was quite exciting
       | at the time, all this brand new web that was emerging.
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       | https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19622
        
       | syncsynchalt wrote:
       | The page talks about what I'd consider the first web _site_, but
       | is missing info on the first web _server_, which was preserved
       | and is displayed at a CERN museum.
       | 
       | Wikimedia link to an image:
       | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg
        
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