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| NCSA HTTPd | |
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| Original author | Robert McCool |
| Developer | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Initial release | 1993; 33 years ago (1993) |
| Stable release | 1.5 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Web server |
| Website | hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu at theWayback Machine (archived 1997-12-10) |
NCSA HTTPd is a discontinuedweb server originally developed at theNCSA at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign byRobert McCool and others.[1] First released in 1993, it was among the earliest web servers developed, followingTim Berners-Lee'sCERN httpd, Tony Sanders' Plexus server, and some others. It was for some time the server counterpart toNCSA Mosaic. It also introduced theCommon Gateway Interface, allowing for the creation of dynamic websites.
AfterRobert McCool left NCSA in mid-1994, the development of NCSA HTTPd slowed greatly. An independent effort, theApache project, took the codebase and continued; meanwhile, NCSA released one more version (1.5), then ceased development. In August 1995, NCSA HTTPd powered most of allweb servers on theInternet;[2] nearly all of them quickly switched over to Apache. By April 1996, Apache passed NCSA HTTPd as the No. 1 server on the Internet, and retained that position until mid-to-late 2016.[2]
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