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100 Ideas that Changed the Web
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100 Ideas that Changed the Web

by Jim Boulton
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
6h 12m
English
Laurence King
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‘A last stand against the commercialization of the Web.’

IDEA No 30

APACHE WEB SERVER

Apache is the most popular web server software in the world, delivering around two-thirds of all websites. Incredibly, thanks to a 21-year-old university drop-out from California, it is free, hacked together by a loose coalition of volunteer programmers.

Brian Behlendorf, open-source hero and creator of the Apache web server.

In 1993, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina created the world’s first graphical browser, Mosaic. This changed everything. Suddenly, the Web was no longer the exclusive domain of academics and computer geeks (see Web Browser).

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