March 13, 2009 9:38 AM PDT
The Internet as we know it today--or even as we knew it in the mid-1990s--didn't come into being overnight. The first Web server was this Next Cube, which Berners-Lee got in September 1990, and it was in December of that year that the Web was established between just a couple of CERN computers, according to the research organization. Berners-Lee also used the Next computer to develop and run a multimedia browser and Web editor.
Correction: This caption originally misstated the year Berners-Lee got the Next Cube that became the first Web server. It was September 1990.
Photo by Patrice Loïez
Caption by Jonathan Skillings
