In February of 1995, the most popular server
software on the Web was the public domain HTTP
daemon developed by Rob McCool at the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
However, development of that httpd had stalled
after Rob left NCSA in mid-1994, and many
webmasters had developed their own extensions
and bug fixes that were in need of a common
distribution.
A small group of these webmasters, contacted via
private e-mail, gathered together for the
purpose of coordinating their changes (in the
form of "patches").
Brian Behlendorf and Cliff Skolnick put together
a mailing list, shared information space, and
logins for the core developers on a machine in
the California Bay Area, with bandwidth donated
by HotWired. By the end of February, eight core
contributors formed the foundation of the
original Apache Group.
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In February of 1995, the most popular server
software on the Web was the public domain HTTP
daemon developed by Rob McCool at the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
However, development of that httpd had stalled
after Rob left NCSA in mid-1994, and many
webmasters had developed their own extensions
and bug fixes that were in need of a common
distribution.
A small group of these webmasters, contacted via
private e-mail, gathered together for the
purpose of coordinating their changes (in the
form of "patches").
Brian Behlendorf and Cliff Skolnick put together
a mailing list, shared information space, and
logins for the core developers on a machine in
the California Bay Area, with bandwidth donated
by HotWired. By the end of February, eight core
contributors formed the foundation of the
original Apache Group.
