Celebrating 15 Years of Apache HTTP Web Server
Fifteen years ago, the Apache Server started as a fork (an independent development stream) of the NCSA HTTPd, a Web server created by Robert M. McCool (Rob McCool) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
At the time, NCSA HTTPd powered over 95% of all webservers on the Internet. When development of the NCSA HTTPd slowed down, the independent effort, Apache project, took the codebase and continued; meanwhile, NCSA released one more version (1.5), then ceased development; nearly all NCSA HTTPd users switched over to Apache.
The Apache server surpassed NCSA HTTPd as the world’s most popular Web server on the Internet within the first six months of inception. The Apache HTTP Server today powers nearly 112 million Websites world-wide, forming the backbone of nearly 70% of all sites on the Internet.
Apache Foundation was formally established in March 1999, it is an all-volunteer organization. The Apache HTTP Server is available for a variety of operating systems, including Unix, Linux, GNU, FreeBSD, Netware, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X, OS/2, TPF, and eCS; and the server software can be downloaded, modified and installed by anyone free of charge under the Apache Software License v.2.0.
Current Releases:
- 2.3.5-alpha (released 2010-1-28)
- 2.2.14 (released 2009-10-05)
- 2.0.63 (released 2008-01-19)
- 1.3.42 (released 2010-02-02)
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