SLAC's First Web Pages 1991-1994

DEFAULT.HTML page

SLAC VM was the mainframe computing system at SLAC in 1991. 
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BINLIST.HTML page

BINLIST was the online directory of staff, faculty, and high-energy physics correspondents' names and contact information.

Clicking on the "BINLIST" link on the DEFAULT.HTML page (above) opened the page pictured.  
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SPIRES.HTML page

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World-Wide Web, has called the SLAC web interface to SPIRES-HEP the "killer app" that showed the world what the web could do.

In December 1991, SPIRES-HEP was already a very popular database among high energy physicists. They were thrilled with the improved and instantaneous access to SPIRES-HEP provided by SLAC's new web interface. Clicking "Search" on this page linked a user to SPIRES.INDEX, and clicking "Help" took them to a page named SPIHELP.INDEX.   
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                                 (Visit the current inSPIRE-HEP web interface.)

SPIRES.INDEX page

Clicking on the "Search" link on the SPIRES.HTML page (shown above) activated this search interface page.  
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BINLIST.INDEX page

Clicking on the "Find" link on the BINLIST.HTML page opened this search interface page.  
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