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WWW@SLAC Exhibit

History of the early days of the first web site in North America, 1991-1994

WWW@SLAC Exhibit

First U.S. Website: Documentation of the Early Web at SLAC (1991-1994)

SLAC physicist Paul Kunz brought the brand new "World Wide Web" to SLAC in September 1991 when he returned from a trip to CERN. Kunz, along with Louise Addis and Terry Hung, designed a Web server to deliver easy access to the SLAC Library's internationally popular SPIRES High Energy Physics preprint database. Installation of SLAC's website, the first outside of Europe, was successfully completed on December 12, 1991.  

Paul Kunz with NeXT machine
Paul Kunz shown in September 1998 with the NeXT machine used to demonstrate the first WWW browser at SLAC (SLAC)