The first World Wide Web Conference

World Wide Web Conference

The International World Wide Web Conference is a yearly international academic conference on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web...

(abbr. WWW1) which was organized by Robert Cailliau

Robert Cailliau

Robert Cailliau , born 26 January 1947, is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, developed the World Wide Web.-Biography:...

 was held at Geneva, Switzerland from May 25 to May 27 in 1994 and was hosted by CERN

CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...

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After Cailliau lobbied inside CERN

CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...

 and at conferences like the Hypertext conference 1991 (in San Antonio) and 1993 (in Seattle) he came back from the conference 1993 he announced a new conferenced called World Wide Web Conference 1. He was actually 23 hours faster than the NCSA

NCSA

NCSA may refer to:*National Center for Supercomputing Applications**NCSA HTTPd, an early webserver developed at this center*University of North Carolina School of the Arts*National Cyber Security Alliance...

 announced Mosaic and the Web. The conference had 380 participants, and was hailed as the Woodstock

Woodstock Festival

Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969...

 of the Web, because 800 persons applied to the conference.

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Dave Raggett

Dave Raggett

Dave Raggett is a computer specialist who has played a major role in implementing the World Wide Web since 1992.He has been a W3C Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium since 1995 and worked on many of the key web protocols, including HTTP, HTML, XHTML, MathML, XForms, and VoiceXML.Raggett wrote...

 showed his testbed

Testbed

A testbed is a platform for experimentation of large development projects. Testbeds allow for rigorous, transparent, and replicable testing of scientific theories, computational tools, and new technologies.The term is used across many disciplines to describe a development environment that is...

 web browser

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

 Arena

Arena (web browser)

The Arena browser was an early testbed web browser and web authoring tool for Unix. Originally authored by Dave Raggett in 1993, the browser continued its development at CERN and the World Wide Web Consortium and subsequently by Yggdrasil Computing...

 and gave a summary of his first HTML+ Internet Draft. He also submitted a paper for VRML

VRML

VRML is a standard file format for representing 3-dimensional interactive vector graphics, designed particularly with the World Wide Web in mind...

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The Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 presented a web browser and HTML editor

HTML editor

An HTML editor is a software application for creating web pages. Although the HTML markup of a web page can be written with any text editor, specialized HTML editors can offer convenience and added functionality. For example, many HTML editors work not only with HTML, but also with related...

 called Phoenix built upon tkWWW

TkWWW

tkWWW was an early web browser/WYSIWYG HTML editor written by Joseph Wang at the MIT as part of the Project Athena and the Globewide Network Academy project. The browser was based on the Tcl language and the tk toolkit extension but did not achieve broad user acceptance or market share although it...

 version 0.9. The web editor was created because existing tools couldn't serve the needs of the university. The editor extended the functionality of tkWWW and later in May 1995 the development stopped because enough existing tools.

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 5225 were cast with the winners averaging 100 votes.

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++

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 - Naples Institute of Physics
• 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

• WorldWideWebWorm, 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
  Francis Heylighen
  Francis Paul Heylighen is a Belgian cyberneticist, and research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Dutch-speaking Free University of Brussels, where he directs the transdisciplinary research group on "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition".-Biography:Francis Heylighen was born on...
  
   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 of Fame for their contributions and influence. The inductees received a Chromachron watch, engraved with the WWW logo.

• Tim Berners-Lee
  Tim Berners-Lee
  Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...
  
  , CERN
• Marc Andreessen
  Marc Andreessen
  Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and multi-millionaire best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard...
  
  , Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSA
• Eric Bina
  Eric Bina
  Eric J. Bina is the co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape. In 1993, Bina along with Marc Andreessen authored the first version of Mosaic while working as a programmer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Bina attended...
  
  , Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSA
• Kevin Hughes
  Kevin Hughes (www)
  Kevin Hughes was one of the pioneers of the World Wide Web in the United States, while a student at Honolulu Community College . He is one of only six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the first international conference on the World Wide Web in 1994.He developed the...
  
  , Honolulu C.C., now at Enterprise Information Technologies
• Rob Hartill
  Rob Hartill
  Robert Hartill is a computer programmer and web designer best known for his work on the Internet Movie Database website and the Apache web server...
  
  , Los Alamos National Lab, formerly at U. Wales College at Cardiff
• Lou Montulli
  Lou Montulli
  Louis J. Montulli II is a programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers. In 1991 and 1992 he co-authored a text web browser called Lynx with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac while he was at the University of Kansas...
  
  , Netscape Communications Co., formerly at U. Kansas

External links

• Homepage
• Trip Reports
• www94 Report by Henry Rzepa, Imperial College, Trip Report
• Live From WWW '94 at CERN
• Best of the Web '94 Recipients
• Plenary at WWW Geneva 94 - some slides of Tim Berners-Lee
  Tim Berners-Lee
  Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...
  
  s presentation