The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) writes: >>note that the first web server outside of europe was on the >>slac vm system > > True, although it's also true it was the first Web server anywhere outside > CERN and anywhere outside Switzerland. So it's an even more impressive bit > of history. Apparently someone(s) from SLAC attended a conference at CERN, > saw this nascient Web technology, thought it was pretty cool, went home and > made it work on their VM system rather quickly. This significantly predates > the (important) work done at NCSA. > > Also true that the very first dynamic (interactive, non-static content) Web > application exposed a find (search) interface to VM, also done at SLAC. > This was way before even the now quaint CGI technologies. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#59 CHROME and WEB apps on Mainframe? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#60 CHROME and WEB apps on Mainframe? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#61 CHROME and WEB apps on Mainframe? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#62 CHROME and WEB apps on Mainframe? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#63 CHROME and WEB apps on Mainframe? and http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml "SLAC" & "CERN" are "sister" high-energy physic lab locations ... and would regularly exchange/use a lot of common software. SLAC also hosted the monthly vm baybunch meetings in the 70s and 80s. there was lots of VM activity going on in the valley during the period. one of the large vm370-based timesharing commercial bureaus http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#timeshare had its main datacenter not very far from SLAC. That organization had also hosted the SHARE online computer conferencing (VMSHARE) since aug76 http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/ this predated (vm-based) bitnet and listserv computer conferencing. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet It also predated what I started doing in the late 70s ... I got blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal (vast majority vm-based) network (which was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possibly mid-85) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet in the mid-80s, the "HSDT" project http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt had a lot of interaction with NSF and various related organizations (including NCSA) on high-speed networking ... misc. past emails http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet and past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar70 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
