The First Web Server

photo of the first web server

Photo by sbisson from Geneva, Switzerland, November 2006 .

In a glass case at CERN is an unpreposessing little NeXT cube. It’s hard to believe that this little workstation changed the world, but it did. It’s Tim Berners Lee‘s original web server, the world’s first.

NeXT is the computer company Steve Jobs founded after he left Apple. Then he left NeXT to buy out Pixar. And then, of course, went back to Apple.

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4 thoughts on “The First Web Server

  1. Mariann Jabay

    yeah, the first step is difficult. if you can notice that the first computers, they are bigger than a human being. this is the same with web developing. the problems are bigger than what one would expect.

  2. Carlos

    I think this thing should be brought to a museum before it gets lost or something! Unbelievable what an impact this thing has had.

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