A few steps to date in the WWW project history are as follows:
March 1989
First project proposal written and circulated for comment
(TBL) . Paper "HyperText and CERN" (in ASCII or WriteNow format)
produced as background.
October 1990
Project proposal reformulated with encouragement from
CN and ECP divisional management. RC is co-author.
November 1990
Initial WorldWideWeb prototype developed on the NeXT
(TBL) .
November 1990
Nicola Pellow joins and starts work on the line-mode
browser . Bernd Pollermann helps get interface to CERNVM "FIND" index
running. TBL gives a colloquium on hypertext in general.
Christmas 1990
Line mode and NeXTStep browsers demonstrable. Acces
is possible to hypertext files, CERNVM "FIND", and internet news articles.
Files available on the net, posted on alt.hypertext (6,
16, 19th Aug), comp.sys.next (20th), comp.text.sgml and comp.mail.multi-media
(22nd). Jean-Francois Groff joins the project.
October 1991
VMS/HELP and WAIS gateways installed. Mailing lists
www-interest (now www-announce) and [email protected] started.
One year status report. Anonymous telnet service started.
December 1991
Presented poster and demonstration at HT91 . W3 browser
installed on VM/CMS. CERN computer newsletter announces W3 to the
HEP world.
15 January 1992
Line mode browser release 1.1 available by anonymous
FTP. See news . Presentation to AIHEP'92 at La Londe.
12 February 1992
Line mode v 1.2 annouced on alt.hypertext, comp.infosystems,
comp.mail.multi-media, cern.sting, comp.archives.admin, and mailing
lists.