[ih] anybody know the history of the group at NCSA that developed Mosaic & HTTPd?

[Brian E Carpenter]

As a starting point, try 
* Chapter 7 of "How the Web Was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web", James Gillies and Robert Cailliau, Oxford University Press, 2000.

There are also a few hints in:
* Chapter 3 of "Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft", Jim Clark with Owen Edwards, St Martins Press, 1999.
* Chapter 6 of "Weaving the Web", Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti, HarperCollins, 1999.

My impression is that, like the original server and browsers at CERN, this was a samizdat project mainly unknown to the management. Jim Clark is quite rude about NCSA management, in fact. The original http daemon was from CERN in any case (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html).

Regards
   Brian

On 11/03/2018 13:17, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm wondering - does anybody here know the history of the group at NCSA 
> that spawned Mosaic and httpd - like where it fit on the organization 
> chart, who ran it, who Andreessen, Bina, and McCool actually worked for?
> 
> I'm trying to understand the environment that spawned the enabled the 
> folks to take Berners-Lee's basic stuff, and make it ready for prime 
> time, so to speak.
> 
> Any insights?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Miles Fidelman
>