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CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser

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Re: CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser

#15

Post by mhandley »

If you want a web server to test against, we're still running CERN 3.0 from 1994 (on early 1990s Sparc hardware too):

  $ nc www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk 80
  HEAD /staff/m.handley/ HTTP/1.0

  HTTP/1.0 200 Document follows
  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Server: CERN/3.0
  Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:46:10 GMT
  Content-Type: text/html
  Content-Length: 8645
  Last-Modified: Tue, 09 May 2017 12:33:04 GMT
It will still speak HTTP 0.9 to you if you omit the HTTP version string in a GET request.

Re: CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser

#16

Post by lolive »

agildehaus wrote: post #13
Yuioup wrote: post #10

"This machine is a ? Do not POWER it down!!" What does it say there?

"server". It's a recreation of the note placed on the first webserver. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg

What is the book next to the computer?

Re: CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser

#17

Post by saagarjha »

Ooh, I have the source code for WorldWideWeb and a binary copy of it that I had installed last year on Previous; if I remember correctly I think I got it to render Google's website (albeit in a very broken way). Maybe this might be useful?

Edit: Just fired it up and it's trying to connect to cernvax.cern.ch, lol

Re: CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser

#18

Post by maxwell »

lolive wrote: post #16
agildehaus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"server". It's a recreation of the note placed on the first webserver. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg

What is the book next to the computer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enquire_Within_Upon_Everything

Re: CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser

#19

Post by saagarjha »

mhandley wrote: post #15

If you want a web server to test against, we're still running CERN 3.0 from 1994 (on early 1990s Sparc hardware too): $ nc www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk 80 HEAD /staff/m.handley/ HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 200 Document follows MIME-Version: 1.0 Server: CERN/3.0 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:46:10 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 8645 Last-Modified: Tue, 09 May 2017 12:33:04 GMT It will still speak HTTP 0.9 to you if you omit the H…

Here's what it looks like, in case you're curious: https://i.imgur.com/hOOEzGg.png

Re: CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser

#20

Post by ziftface »

saagarjha wrote: post #17

Ooh, I have the source code for WorldWideWeb and a binary copy of it that I had installed last year on Previous; if I remember correctly I think I got it to render Google's website (albeit in a very broken way). Maybe this might be useful? Edit: Just fired it up and it's trying to connect to cernvax.cern.ch, lol

Any chance you can put it on github?
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