I received a mass email from the person who founded and runs Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, celebrating the birth of the world wide web 20 years ago and the fact that Cornell’s LII was there when the lights went on, along with 24 other active servers:
Earlier this week, the World Wide Web celebrated its 20th anniversary — the date in 1993 when CERN, where the Web originally took shape as a research project, announced that it was making the technology freely available to the world. In recognition of that event, CERN republished its original Web page, arguably the first Web page in the world, as it appeared in 1993. You can browse it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html .If you do, you’ll see a link to “What’s out there”(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/Top.html). Under “Law”, you’ll see one entry — a link to Title 17 of the US Code at the LII.There is also a link to “W3 Servers” (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html ), not a comprehensive list of all the servers running at the time, but a list of all of the ones running reliably. There are 25, and again you’ll find a link to the LII, the 21st to be added to a list whose first member was the original CERN server put up by Tim Berners-Lee.We’re kind of proud of that.The CERN announcement is at http://info.cern.ch.
Here’s the list:
NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applictions, Urbana Champain, IL, USA. Experimental.
IN2P3 Lyon, France.
KVIKernfysisch Versneller Instituut (nuclear physics accelerator institute), Groningen, Netherlands. VMS server.
CWI Center of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam. FTP server for hypertext, including Gnu TeXInfo stuff as hypertext.
Cornell Legal information: US Intellectual Property Statustes on line.
ZEUS ZEUS experiment at DESY, Hamburg, Germany. [.At least 2 servers]
KEK KEK, Tsukuba, Japan. Experimental only. [FTP hypertext, http server later)
DESY unix server Experimental only as yet.
Denmark’s Technical Library The DTB information service includes the library system.
VOICE magazine The first global online hypertext magazine? Ed. Tom Boutell
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator, California. HEP preprints database and LOTS more… also a unix server .
Technical University of Graz Information service. Gateway to Hyper-G data.
CCIT Arizona University of Arizona information
Fermilab Documentation from online and offline groups. Also at FNAL, very experimental servers in Theory , D0 , HEPnet management , ACCESS user consultancy .
ASIS Software Repository A server for public domain and CERN software for distribution to CERN members only. The documentation is public.
CERN news Various groups, some more active than others – see the full list
CERN computing documents A keyword index.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Information service – both in hebrew and English, asssumes a VT terminal with hebrew characters. See also their TeX database (July 1992).
Helsinki Technical University HUT Information tree.
HEPNET Experimental server (might move!) run by US HEPNet at FNAL.
ICTP Italian physics institute (experimental server)
FUNET informationFinnish Univerity Research Network.
NIKHEF The Dutch High-Energy Physics center.
Software Technology Information from STING organised by Mike Sendall.
VXCRNA help The VMS help tree on node vxcrna.cern.ch .
WorldWideWeb support information about W3 itself, CERN entry point, and web overviews.
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