Apache's 25th Anniversary: a timeline of The Apache HTTP Server
Channel: The ASF
Date: 2020-10-15

Apache's 25th Anniversary: a timeline of The Apache HTTP Server
Jim Jagielski, Nick Vidal

A presentation from ApacheCon @Home 2020
https://apachecon.com/acah2020/

This year, the Apache HTTP Server Project celebrates its 25th Anniversary. In February 1995, a small group of webmasters known as the Apache Group came together with the goal of releasing a common distribution based on multiple "patches" to the NCSA HTTPd Server. The first public release of Apache was in April 1995 and, after a major re-architecture, Apache 1.0 was officially released in December 1995. Apache rapidly grew to become the most popular server on the Internet, playing a key role in the growth of the World Wide Web and Open Source. The goal of this talk to present a timeline of the Apache HTTP Server Project, highlighting the most important milestones of this amazing software and community.

Jim Jagielski:
Jim is a well known and acknowledged expert and visionary in Open Source and IT, an accomplished coder (in numerous languages) and frequent presenter/interviewee/consultant on all things Web and Cloud related. He is best known as one of the developers and co-founders of the Apache Software Foundation and has served as President and Chairman. He also served on the board, as well as President, for the Outercurve Foundation and was a director for the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Jim works for Uber as their Head of Open Source, after stints at ConsenSys, Capital One, Red Hat, VMware, and others.

Nick Vidal:
Nick Vidal has been an open source advocate for over 15 years. He helped the Open Source Initiative to celebrate the "20th Anniversary of Open Source" by organizing 100 activities across 40 major open source events worldwide.