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DescriptionFirst Web Server.jpg	English: * This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube, monitor Cern 57503) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. It is shown here as displayed in 2005 at Microcosm, the public science museum at CERN where Berners-Lee was working in 1991 when he invented the Web. The document resting on the keyboard is a copy of "CERN DD/OC March 1989 Information Management: A Proposal. Abstract" which was Berners-Lee's original proposal for the World Wide Web. (Further text visible: "...distributed hypertext systems, Hypertext, computer conferencing, document retrieval, information management. Project, IBM Group talk, VAX/Notes, CERNDOC, UUCP News, Hierarchical systems".) The partly peeled off label on the cube itself has the following text: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!" The labels on top of the server and on the keyboard read "PROPRIETE CERN" (French for "Cern property"). Just below the keyboard (not shown) is a label which reads: "At the end of the 80s, Tim Berners-Lee (TBL) invented the World Wide Web using this Next computer as the first Web server." The book is the enyclopedia in many parts of Robert Kemp Philp, ed.: "Enquire Within upon Everything", London 1856 and later editions, which TBL describes on page one of his book "Weaving the Web. The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web as "a musty old book of Victorian advice I noticed as a child in my parents' house outside London". (Text that is almost legible in the high resolution picture: 750. Diuretics, 756. Diaphoretics, 761. Expectorants, 765. Ginger). Text at the beginning of Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving the Web, Chapter 1 Enquire Within upon Everything: "When I first began tinkering with a software program that eventually gave rise to the idea of the World Wide Web, I named it Enquire, short for Enquire Within upon Everything, a musty old book of Victorian advice I noticed as a child in my parents' house outside London. With its title suggestive of magic, the book served as a portal to a world of information, everything from how to remove clothing stains to tips on investing money. Not a perfect analogy for the Web, but a primitive starting point. What that first bit of Enquire code led me to was something much larger, a vision encompassing the decentralized, organic growth of ideas, technology and society. The vision I have for the Web is about anything being potentially connected with anything..." This is a new upload by Coolcaesar of the original JPEG file on en:September 22, en:2008 directly to Commons in response to continued vandalism of the original.
Date	10 August 2005
Source	Own work
Author	User:Coolcaesar at en.wikipedia
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22:06, 14 August 2005 . . Coolcaesar (Talk) . . 1000x750 (281253 bytes) (This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. Today, it is kept in Microcosm, the public museum at the Meyrin site of CERN, in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.) this is the first web server computer which was presented by the USA in London.

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current	12:01, 10 November 2022	2,048 × 1,536 (2.97 MB)	D834a8e8-f898-4230-bec5-3117c4579af8	Increased clarity by 15%, color by 15% {{Please-do-not-overwrite-original-files}}
	20:12, 30 May 2010	2,048 × 1,536 (957 KB)	Aavindraa	remove spottiness, remove large flash, improve contrast
	09:03, 22 September 2008	2,048 × 1,536 (952 KB)	Coolcaesar	{{Information \|Description=This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. It is shown here as displayed at Microco
	20:06, 12 August 2006	1,000 × 750 (541 KB)	Wackymacs	removed blurring...cloning pattern so that the flash shine is removed properly without looking weird
	08:19, 12 August 2006	1,000 × 750 (522 KB)	Wackymacs	removed blemishes, spots using Photoshop clone/stamp tool...looks much better now
	12:54, 8 December 2005	1,000 × 750 (176 KB)	VanGore	manipulated; source from ''2:12, 30 October 2005 . . Romanm . . 1000x750 (281253 bytes) (from :en:Image:First Web Server.jpg)''; I have smeard the refelction of the flash
	22:12, 30 October 2005	1,000 × 750 (275 KB)	Romanm	from en:Image:First Web Server.jpg