Tim Berners-Lee drew what he called the "metro": a diagram of the relationships between the existing systems (FTP, SMTP, HTTP, ...) in the form of a stylised map resembling that of the London Underground. That made me think that we needed to deal with a lot more hard computer science than our small team of four or five could intellectually handle. Therefore I began to toy with the idea of an international conference on WWW technologies. Tim was not convinced, but I went ahead.
The 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,[3] who were accepted out of 800 applicants.[4] It has been referred to as the "Woodstock of the Web".[5]
The event was organized by Robert Cailliau,[6][7] a computer scientist who had helped to develop the original WWW specification, and was hosted by CERN.[8] 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.[9] Coincidentally, the NCSA announced their Mosaic and the Web conference 23 hours later.[9]
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.[14][15]
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
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.[17] The inductees received a Chromachron watch, engraved with the WWW logo.[14]
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