Kevin Hughes was one of the pioneers of the World Wide Web in the United States, while a student at
Honolulu Community College
Honolulu Community College is a public community college in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is one of ten branches of the University of Hawaii system and is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
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(HCC), in Hawaii.
He created one of the first campus web sites, including novel (at the time) ideas such as a virtual tour of a campus museum. He also wrote software that was used in early web sites to index web pages: Simple Web Indexing System for Humans, or
SWISH.
Developments
Hughes later developed seminal technologies for numerous commerce web sites.
Icon Design
He also designed the original public domain icons that come with the
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server ( ) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0. Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache So ...
.
Awards
He is one of only six inductees in the
World Wide Web Hall of Fame
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announced at the
first international conference on the World Wide Web
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, ...
in 1994.
References
External links
Kevcom
Living people
Internet pioneers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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