The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source web server program that grew out of the NCSA HTTPd server, whose development had stalled in the mid-1990s. A group of webmasters collected patches to improve it and formed the Apache Group, and the name is often explained as a pun on a patchy server. Its modular design, free licence and reliability helped it overtake all rivals, and by the late 1990s it was the most widely used web server on the internet. The Apache Group later became the Apache Software Foundation, which oversees many other open-source projects. Although the Nginx server later took a large share of the market, Apache remains very widely deployed.
Before and after
- 5 December 1994Budapest Memorandum
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
- from 11 December 1994 to 31 August 1996First Chechen War
- from 31 December 1994 to 8 February 1995Battle of Grozny
- 1995Release of Apache HTTP Server
- 1995Founding of European Medicines Agency
- 1995Launch of JSTOR
- 1995Creation of Ruby
- 1995Dogme 95
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The era
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