First International Conference on the World-Wide Web

First International Conference on the World-Wide Web
*WWW1*
First International Conference on the World-Wide Web; WWW1
	WWW1 logo
Host country	Switzerland
Date	May 25, 1994–; May 27, 1994
Venue(s)	CERN
Cities	Geneva
Participants	380; Oscar Nierstrasz (Program chair); Bertrand Ibrahim (Conference chair);
Website	www.cern.ch/www94

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 the London 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.

Robert Cailliau^[2]

The First International Conference on the World-Wide Web (also known as WWW1) was the first-ever conference about the World Wide Web, and the first meeting of what became the International World Wide Web Conference. It was held on May 25 to 27, 1994 in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference had 380 participants,^[3] who were accepted out of 800 applicants.^[4] It has been referred to as the "Woodstock of the Web".^[5]

The event was organized by Robert Cailliau,^[6]^[7] a computer scientist who had helped to develop the original WWW specification, and was hosted by CERN.^[8] Cailliau had lobbied inside 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] Coincidentally, the NCSA announced their Mosaic and the Web conference 23 hours later.^[9]

Content

Dave Raggett showed his testbed web browser Arena and gave a summary of his first HTML+ Internet Draft.^[10] He also submitted a paper for VRML.^[3]

The Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago presented a web browser and HTML editor called Phoenix built upon tkWWW version 0.9.^[11]^[12] The editor extended the functionality of tkWWW.^[11]^[13]

Best of the Web Awards

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]

Best of the Web '94 Recipients

Best Overall Site

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

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

Winner

O'Reilly and Associates

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

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

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

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

Winner

World-Wide Web Worm, Oliver McBryan, U. Colorado CS

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

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

Winner

Travels With Samantha, Phillip Greenspun, MIT

Honorable Mention

Principia Cybernetica Web - Francis Heylighen et al., Free U. of Brussels
Telektronikk - Håkon Lie, Norwegian Telecom
Wired Magazine

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

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

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

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

The following people were inducted into the World Wide Web Hall of Fame for their contributions and influence.^[17] The inductees received a Chromachron watch, engraved with the WWW logo.^[14]

Tim Berners-Lee, CERN
Marc Andreessen, Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSA
Eric Bina, Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSA
Kevin Hughes, InMobi, formerly at Honolulu C.C.
Rob Hartill, Los Alamos National Lab, formerly at U. Wales College at Cardiff
Lou Montulli, Netscape Communications Co., formerly at U. Kansas

References

^ ^a ^b "Thanks to People". CERN. 28 May 1994. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
^ n:Wikinews:Story preparation/Interview with Robert Cailliau
^ ^a ^b "First International Conference on the World-Wide Web". CERN. 2 June 1994. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
^ Robert Cailliau (1995). "A Little History of the World Wide Web". World Wide Web Conference. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
^ "How the web began". CERN. 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
^ Robert Cailliau (21 July 2010). "A Short History of the Web". NetValley. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
^ Tim Berners-Lee. "Frequently asked questions - Robert Cailliau's role". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
^ "IW3C2 - Past and Future Conferences". International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. 2010-05-02. Archived from the original on 2010-06-25. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
^ ^a ^b Petrie, Charles; Cailliau, Robert (November 1997). "Interview Robert Cailliau on the WWW Proposal: "How It Really Happened."". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
^ Raggett, Dave. "Dave Raggett's Bio". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
^ ^a ^b Marc G. Lavenant; John A. Kruper (25–27 May 1994). "The Phoenix Project: Distributed Hypermedia Authoring" (PostScript). World Wide Web Conference 1. University of Chicago: CERN. Archived from the original on November 20, 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
^ Virden, Larry W. (26 July 2006). "comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions (July 26, 2006) (4/6)". SourceForge. Archived from the original on 4 April 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
^ README of Phoenix-0.1.8 Alpha release (released 15 May 1995); available here
^ ^a ^b "Awards". CERN. 28 May 1994. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
^ "The Best of the Web '94". Best of the Web Directory. Best of the Web. 1994. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
^ Reported in the BoWeb '94 web site as "Naples Institute of Physics"
^ "BoWeb 94 - WWW Hall of Fame". Best of the Web Directory. Best of the Web. Archived from the original on 1999-02-24. Retrieved 16 May 2010.

External links

Official website
Trip Reports
www94 Report by Henry Rzepa, Imperial College, Trip Report
www94 Report by Peter Robinson, then University of Oxford, Trip Report
Live From WWW '94 at CERN
Best of the Web '94 Recipients Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
Plenary at WWW Geneva 94 - some slides of Tim Berners-Lees presentation

[people-1] "Thanks to People". CERN. 28 May 1994. Retrieved 16 May 2010.

[2] :Wikinews:Story preparation/Interview with Robert Cailliau

[conferencemain-3] "First International Conference on the World-Wide Web". CERN. 2 June 1994. Retrieved 16 May 2010.

[4] Robert Cailliau (1995). "A Little History of the World Wide Web". World Wide Web Conference. Retrieved 25 July 2010.

[5] "How the web began". CERN. 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2010.

[6] Robert Cailliau (21 July 2010). "A Short History of the Web". NetValley. Retrieved 21 July 2010.

[faq-7] Tim Berners-Lee. "Frequently asked questions - Robert Cailliau's role". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 22 July 2010.

[8] "IW3C2 - Past and Future Conferences". International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. 2010-05-02. Archived from the original on 2010-06-25. Retrieved 16 May 2010.

[IEEE-9] Petrie, Charles; Cailliau, Robert (November 1997). "Interview Robert Cailliau on the WWW Proposal: "How It Really Happened."". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2010.

[10] Raggett, Dave. "Dave Raggett's Bio". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 11 June 2010.

[unichicago-11] Marc G. Lavenant; John A. Kruper (25–27 May 1994). "The Phoenix Project: Distributed Hypermedia Authoring" (PostScript). World Wide Web Conference 1. University of Chicago: CERN. Archived from the original on November 20, 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2010.

[12] Virden, Larry W. (26 July 2006). "comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions (July 26, 2006) (4/6)". SourceForge. Archived from the original on 4 April 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2010.

[p18-13] README of Phoenix-0.1.8 Alpha release (released 15 May 1995); available here

[awards-14] "Awards". CERN. 28 May 1994. Retrieved 16 May 2010.

[The_Best_of_the_Web_'94-15] "The Best of the Web '94". Best of the Web Directory. Best of the Web. 1994. Retrieved 16 May 2010.

[16] Reported in the BoWeb '94 web site as "Naples Institute of Physics"

[inductee-17] "BoWeb 94 - WWW Hall of Fame". Best of the Web Directory. Best of the Web. Archived from the original on 1999-02-24. Retrieved 16 May 2010.

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First International Conference on the World-Wide Web

Content

Best of the Web Awards

Best of the Web '94 Recipients

Best Overall Site

Best Campus-Wide Information Service

Best Commercial Service

Best Educational Service

Best Entertainment Service

Best Professional Service

Best Navigational Aid

Most Important Service Concept

Best Document Design

Best Use of Interaction

Best Use of Multiple Media

Most Technical Merit

World Wide Web Hall of Fame Inductees

References

External links

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