1994 Conference held at CERN, Geneva
First International Conference on the World-Wide WebWWW1 WWW1 logo
Host country Switzerland Date May 25, 1994 (1994-05-25 ) – (1994-05-27 ) Cities Geneva Venues CERN Participants 380 Oscar Nierstrasz (Program chair)[ 1] Bertrand Ibrahim (Conference chair)[ 1] Website www
Tim Berners-Lee drew what he called the "metro": a diagram of the relationships between the existing systems (FTP ,SMTP ,HTTP , ...) in the form of a stylised map resembling that of theLondon Underground . That made me think that we needed to deal with a lot more hard computer science than our small team of four or five could intellectually handle. Therefore I began to toy with the idea of an international conference on WWW technologies. Tim was not convinced, but I went ahead.
First International Conference on the World-Wide Web (also known asWWW1 ) was the first-ever conference about theWorld Wide Web , and the first meeting of what became theInternational World Wide Web Conference . It was held on May 25 to 27, 1994 inGeneva ,Switzerland . The conference had 380 participants,[ 3] [ 4] Woodstock of the Web".[ 5]
The event was organized byRobert Cailliau ,[ 6] [ 7] CERN .[ 8] CERN , and at conferences like the ACM Hypertext Conference in 1991 (in San Antonio) and 1993 (in Seattle). After returning from the Seattle conference, he announced the new World Wide Web Conference 1.[ 9] NCSA announced theirMosaic and the Web conference 23 hours later.[ 9]
Dave Raggett showed histestbed web browserArena and gave a summary of his firstHTML+ Internet Draft.[ 10] VRML .[ 3]
TheBiological Sciences Division of theUniversity of Chicago presented aweb browser andHTML editor calledPhoenix tkWWW version 0.9.[ 11] [ 12] [ 11] [ 13]
Best of the Web Awards [ edit ] The Best of the Web Awards were given out on May 26 following the "Best of WWW" contest set up by Brandon Plewe. The awards were selected via a two-month open nomination, and a two-week open voting period. A total of 5,225 votes were cast, with the winners averaging 100 votes.[ 14] [ 15]
[ edit ] Winner National Center for Supercomputing Applications, U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Honorable Mentions World-Wide Web Home, European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) CMU Computer Science Dept., Carnegie-Mellon U. Global Network Navigator, O'Reilly and Associates Other Nominees SunSITE, U. North Carolina United States Geological Survey Best Campus-Wide Information Service [ edit ] Winner Globewide Network Academy Honorable Mentions Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - RPINFO St. Olaf College University of Kansas - KUFacts University of Texas - Austin Other Nominees Honolulu Community College State University of New York at Buffalo University of Maryland - Baltimore County Wake Forest University - Deacons Online Best Commercial Service [ edit ] Winner Honorable Mention Hewlett-Packard Novell, Inc. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Other Nominees Arctic Adventours, Inc. Digital Equipment Corp. The Mathworks Inc Nine Lives Consignment Clothing Store QMS Quadralay Santa Cruz Operation Best Educational Service [ edit ] Winner Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ -Marcus Speh Honorable Mention ArtServe - Australian National University Expo - Frans van Hoesel (housed at UNC SunSITE) Museum of Paleontology - University of California at Berkeley Views of the Solar System - C.J. Hamilton, Los Alamos National Laboratory Other Nominees Early Scientific Instruments - Department of Physical Sciences,University of Naples "Federico II" [ 16] Geographic Information Systems - U.S. Geological Survey Geometry Applications Gallery - U. Minnesota Geometry Center The Journey North - U. Michigan School of Education A Tourist Expedition to Antarctica - L. Liming, U. Michigan Best Entertainment Service [ edit ] Winner Sports Information Service, Eric Richard, MIT Honorable Mention Movie Database (Original in UK, or Mirror in US) -Rob Hartill , U. Wales-Cardiff Doctor Fun - Dave Farley, U. Chicago MTV - Adam Curry, MTV Networks Other Nominees The Global Network Navigator - O'Reilly and Associates Music Database - Andy Burnett, U.S. Army CERL TNS Technology Demonstrations - MIT Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group Wired Magazine Best Professional Service [ edit ] Winner OncoLink, U. Pennsylvania Honorable Mention BioInformatics Server - Johns Hopkins U. Explorer - U. Kansas UNITE Group Unified CS Technical Report Index - Marc VanHeyningen, Indiana U. Climate Data Catalog - Columbia U. Other Nominees Genome Data Base HEASARC Browse - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center SWISS-PROT Protein Sequence Database - Geneva U. Hospital Physics E-Print Archives - Paul Ginsparg, Los Alamos National Laboratory Virtual Hospital - U. Iowa Best Navigational Aid [ edit ] Winner Honorable Mention Internet Meta-Index - Oscar Nierstrasz, U. Geneva Informatics Project DA-CLOD - Sam Sengupta, Washington U.-St. Louis Galaxy - EINet Other Nominees AliWeb -Martijn Koster ,Nexor JumpStation - Jonathan Fletcher, Stirling U. W3 Catalog - Oscar Nierstrasz, U. Geneva Informatics Joel's Hierarchical Subject Index - Joel Jones, U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Mother-of-all-BBS' - Oliver McBryan, U. Colorado CS The Virtual Tourist - Brandon Plewe, SUNY/Buffalo Most Important Service Concept [ edit ] Winner What's New on the WWW, Marc Andreessen, NCSA, June 1993 Honorable Mention Web Magazines: The Global Network Navigator - O'Reilly and Associates Distance Learning: The Globewide Network Academy Virtual Museums: Honolulu C.C. Dinosaur Exhibit - Kevin Hughes Other Nominees Interactive Graphics: Honolulu C.C. Campus Map - Kevin Hughes Web Space for Rent: Internex Information Services Online Encyclopedia: The Interpedia File converters, Text Databases: Usenet FAQ Archives - Tom Fine, Ohio State U. Customized Server Software: Map Server - Steve Putz, Xerox PARC Best Document Design [ edit ] Winner Travels With Samantha, Phillip Greenspun, MIT Honorable Mention Other Nominees Ada 9X Reference Manual - Magnus Kempe, Swiss Federal Inst. Tech.- Lausanne GNN NetNews - O'Reilly and Associates HTML Style Guide - Tim Berners-Lee, CERN Manual of Federal Geographic Data Products - William G. Miller, U.S. Geological Survey Perl Manual - Robert Stockton, Carnegie-Mellon U. U.S. Constitution - Legal Information Institute, Cornell U. Best Use of Interaction [ edit ] Winner Xerox Map Server, Steve Putz, Xerox PARC Honorable Mention DA-CLOD - Sam Sengupta, Washington U.-St. Louis Geometry Applications Gallery - U. Minnesota Geometry Center Weather Map requestor - Charles Henrich, Michigan State U. Other Nominees 16 Puzzle - Andrew Wilson, U. Cardiff-Wales Swiss 2D-Page - Geneva U. Hospital ExPASy SkyView Gateway - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center HEASARC You Are Here Server - Brandon Plewe, SUNY/Buffalo Best Use of Multiple Media [ edit ] Winner Le Louvre, Nicolas Pioch, Telecom Paris Honorable Mention ArtServe - Australian National University Coherent Structure in Turbulent Fluid Flow - Nat. Ctr for Atmospheric Research Expo - Frans van Hoesel TNS Technology Demos - MIT Telemedia Networks and Systems Group Other Nominees Een Kwestie van Kiezen (A Matter of Choice) - U. Wageningen, Netherlands Museum of Paleontology - U. California - Berkeley Recording Studio - Adam Curry, MTV Texas History Exhibits - U. Texas-Austin Library Usenet Image Gallery -Stéphane Bortzmeyer , CNAM, France XMorphia - Roy Williams, Caltech Most Technical Merit [ edit ] Winner Map Server, Steve Putz, Xerox PARC Honorable Mention Dutch Teletext Gateway - Arjan de Vet, Eindhoven University Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry - UMN Geometry Center Interactive Genetic Art - Scott Reilly and Michael Witbrock, Carnegie-Mellon U. Other Nominees Mother-of-all-BBS' - Oliver McBryan, U. Colorado CS Monthly Temperature Anomalies - NOAA National Climatic Data Center Temperature Display - Oliver McBryan, U. Colorado CS GRN UseNet Article Decoder - George Phillips, U. British Columbia Say... - Axel Belinfante, U. Twente, Netherlands SkyView - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center World Wide Web Hall of Fame Inductees [ edit ] The following people were inducted into the World Wide Web Hall of Fame for their contributions and influence.[ 17] Chromachron watch, engraved with the WWW logo.[ 14]
Tim Berners-Lee , CERNMarc Andreessen , Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSAEric Bina , Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSAKevin Hughes , InMobi, formerly at Honolulu C.C.Rob Hartill , Los Alamos National Lab, formerly at U. Wales College at CardiffLou Montulli , Netscape Communications Co., formerly at U. Kansas
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