Douglas Engelbart born Tim Berners-Lee born Ted Nelson founded the first hypertext project called Xanadu Roy Fielding born in South Laguna, California, USA Clip 22 illustrates hypertext linking. Brian Behlendorf born Rob McCool born The program Enquire had some of the same ideas as the (semantic) web. According to Tim Berners-Lee the name was inspired by a book entitled 'Enquire Within Upon Everything'. The World Wide Web was first conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. According to his Tim Berners-Lee book 'Weaving the Web' he sent a proposal Mike Sendall; to his boss, David Williams; and to a few others. The proposal of March 1998 has generated no reactions and hence Tim Berners-Lee reformatted it and put a new date on it (May 1990) and gave it to David Williams again, but it got shelved again. First successful HTTP client and server communication via the internet Gore's legislation also helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where a team of programmers, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, created the Mosaic Web browser. Rob McCool gets started developing the NCSA HTTPd web server Brian Behlendof is the proud daddy of SFRaves Brian Behlendorf and Cliff Skolnick are co-founders of Organic. Brian Behlendorf and Roy Fielding meet for the very first time at WWW1 (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland). Mosaic Communications Corporation was co-founded by Marc Andreessen (together with Jim Clark), who was a co-developer of the NCSA Mosaic web browser. The "Roy owes Rob beer" comment originated in NCSA httpd 1.21b Robert McCool joined Mosaic Communications Corporation/Netscape Individuals (e.g. Roy Fielding) interested in the project joined the mailing list new-httpd@hyperreal.com Mailing list httpd-dev archive started Start of Apache as fork of the NCSA HTTPd codebase First official public release (0.6.2) of the Apache web server Release of Apache httpd 1.0 In San Francisco close to Twin Peaks. Development of NCSA HTTPd was suspended Release of Apache httpd 1.3 Release of Apache httpd 1.3 Greg Stein leaves Microsoft. Greg Stein starts working on the mod_dav module. First ApacheCon at the San Francisco Hilton in California, USA Levi Brucker born The Halloween documents (see in particular http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween1.html re HTTP-DAV) are published by Eric Raymond. Greg Stein release first version of the mod_dav module. With the help of a lawyer from IBM. Press release (http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/pr_1999_06_30.html) written by Sally Khudairi. Release of Apache httpd 2.0 Release of Apache httpd 2.2 ApacheCon Amsterdam (Netherland) and ApacheCon Oakland (USA) Arnold Schwarzenegger congratulates the ASF on its 10th anniversary.