First International Conference on the World-Wide Web (also known as WWW1) was the first-ever conference about the World Wide Web, and the first meeting of what became the International World Wide Web Conference. It was held on May 25 to 27, 1994 in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference had 380 participants, who were accepted out of 800 applicants. It has been referred to as the "Woodstock of the Web".
The event was organized by Robert Cailliau, a computer scientist who had helped to develop the original WWW specification, and was hosted by CERN. Cailliau had lobbied inside CERN, and at conferences like the ACM Hypertext Conference in 1991 (in San Antonio) and 1993 (in Seattle). After returning from the Seattle conference, he announced the new World Wide Web Conference 1. Coincidentally, the NCSA announced their Mosaic and the Web conference 23 hours later.
Content Dave Raggett showed his testbed web browser Arena and gave a summary of his first HTML+ Internet Draft. He also submitted a paper for VRML.
The Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago presented a web browser and HTML editor called Phoenix built upon tkWWW version 0.9. The editor extended the functionality of tkWWW.README of Phoenix-0.1.8 Alpha release (released 15 May 1995); available here
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 5,225 votes were cast, with the winners averaging 100 votes.
Best of the Web '94 Recipients
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++ - Marcus Speh
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 - Department of Physical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II"Reported in the BoWeb '94 web site as "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 World-Wide Web Worm, 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 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 Hall of Fame for their contributions and influence. The inductees received a Chromachron watch, engraved with the WWW logo. Tim Berners-Lee, CERN Marc Andreessen, Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSA Eric Bina, Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSA Kevin Hughes, InMobi, formerly at Honolulu C.C. Rob Hartill, Los Alamos National Lab, formerly at U. Wales College at Cardiff Lou Montulli, Netscape Communications Co., formerly at U. Kansas
References
External links
Trip Reports www94 Report by Henry Rzepa, Imperial College, Trip Report www94 Report by Peter Robinson, then University of Oxford, Trip Report Live From WWW '94 at CERN Best of the Web '94 Recipients Plenary at WWW Geneva 94 - some slides of Tim Berners-Lees presentation