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, and the first meeting of what became the

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. It was held on May 25 to 27, 1994 in

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. The conference had 380 participants, who were accepted out of 800 applicants. It has been referred to as the "

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of the Web". The event was organized by Robert Cailliau, a computer scientist who had helped to develop the original WWW specification, and was hosted by

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. Cailliau had lobbied inside

, and at conferences like the ACM Hypertext Conference in 1991 (in San Antonio) and 1993 (in Seattle). After returning from the Seattle conference, he announced the new World Wide Web Conference 1. Coincidentally, the NCSA announced their Mosaic and the Web conference 23 hours later.

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showed his

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and gave a summary of his first

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Internet Draft. He also submitted a paper for VRML. The Biological Sciences Division of the

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presented a web browser and

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called '' Phoenix'' built upon

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Best of the Web Awards

The Best of the Web Awards were given out on May 26 following the "Best of WWW" contest set up by Brandon Plewe. The awards were selected via a two-month open nomination, and a two-week open voting period. A total of 5,225 votes were cast, with the winners averaging 100 votes.

Best of the Web '94 Recipients

Best Overall Site

;Winner * National Center for Supercomputing Applications, U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ;Honorable Mentions * World-Wide Web Home, European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) * CMU Computer Science Dept., Carnegie-Mellon U. * Global Network Navigator, O'Reilly and Associates ;Other Nominees * SunSITE, U. North Carolina * United States Geological Survey

Best Campus-Wide Information Service

;Winner * Globewide Network Academy ;Honorable Mentions * Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - RPINFO * St. Olaf College * University of Kansas - KUFacts * University of Texas - Austin ;Other Nominees * Honolulu Community College * State University of New York at Buffalo * University of Maryland - Baltimore County * Wake Forest University - Deacons Online

Best Commercial Service

;Winner * O'Reilly and Associates ;Honorable Mention * Hewlett-Packard * Novell, Inc. * Sun Microsystems, Inc. ;Other Nominees * Arctic Adventours, Inc. * Digital Equipment Corp. * The Mathworks Inc * Nine Lives Consignment Clothing Store * QMS * Quadralay * Santa Cruz Operation

Best Educational Service

;Winner * Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ - Marcus Speh ;Honorable Mention * ArtServe - Australian National University * Expo - Frans van Hoesel (housed at UNC SunSITE) * Museum of Paleontology - University of California at Berkeley * Views of the Solar System - C.J. Hamilton, Los Alamos National Laboratory ;Other Nominees * Early Scientific Instruments - Department of Physical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II"Reported in the BoWeb '94 web site as "Naples Institute of Physics" * Geographic Information Systems - U.S. Geological Survey * Geometry Applications Gallery - U. Minnesota Geometry Center * The Journey North - U. Michigan School of Education * A Tourist Expedition to Antarctica - L. Liming, U. Michigan

Best Entertainment Service

;Winner * Sports Information Service, Eric Richard, MIT ;Honorable Mention * Movie Database (Original in UK, or Mirror in US) - Rob Hartill, U. Wales-Cardiff * Doctor Fun - Dave Farley, U. Chicago * MTV - Adam Curry, MTV Networks ;Other Nominees * The Global Network Navigator - O'Reilly and Associates * Music Database - Andy Burnett, U.S. Army CERL * TNS Technology Demonstrations - MIT Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group * Wired Magazine

Best Professional Service

;Winner * OncoLink, U. Pennsylvania ;Honorable Mention * BioInformatics Server - Johns Hopkins U. * Explorer - U. Kansas UNITE Group * Unified CS Technical Report Index - Marc VanHeyningen, Indiana U. * Climate Data Catalog - Columbia U. ;Other Nominees * Genome Data Base * HEASARC Browse - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center * SWISS-PROT Protein Sequence Database - Geneva U. Hospital * Physics E-Print Archives - Paul Ginsparg, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Virtual Hospital - U. Iowa

Best Navigational Aid

;Winner * World-Wide Web Worm, Oliver McBryan, U. Colorado CS ;Honorable Mention * Internet Meta-Index - Oscar Nierstrasz, U. Geneva Informatics * Project DA-CLOD - Sam Sengupta, Washington U.-St. Louis * Galaxy - EINet ;Other Nominees * AliWeb -

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* JumpStation - Jonathan Fletcher, Stirling U. * W3 Catalog - Oscar Nierstrasz, U. Geneva Informatics * Joel's Hierarchical Subject Index - Joel Jones, U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * Mother-of-all-BBS' - Oliver McBryan, U. Colorado CS * The Virtual Tourist - Brandon Plewe, SUNY/Buffalo

Most Important Service Concept

;Winner * What's New on the WWW, Marc Andreessen, NCSA, June 1993 ;Honorable Mention * Web Magazines: The Global Network Navigator - O'Reilly and Associates * Distance Learning: The Globewide Network Academy * Virtual Museums: Honolulu C.C. Dinosaur Exhibit - Kevin Hughes ;Other Nominees * Interactive Graphics: Honolulu C.C. Campus Map - Kevin Hughes * Web Space for Rent: Internex Information Services * Online Encyclopedia: The Interpedia * File converters, Text Databases: Usenet FAQ Archives - Tom Fine, Ohio State U. * Customized Server Software: Map Server - Steve Putz, Xerox PARC

Best Document Design

;Winner * Travels With Samantha, Phillip Greenspun, MIT ;Honorable Mention *

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- Francis Heylighen ''et al.'', Free U. of Brussels * Telektronikk - Håkon Lie, Norwegian Telecom * Wired Magazine ;Other Nominees * Ada 9X Reference Manual - Magnus Kempe, Swiss Federal Inst. Tech.- Lausanne * GNN NetNews - O'Reilly and Associates * HTML Style Guide - Tim Berners-Lee, CERN * Manual of Federal Geographic Data Products - William G. Miller, U.S. Geological Survey * Perl Manual - Robert Stockton, Carnegie-Mellon U. * U.S. Constitution - Legal Information Institute, Cornell U.

Best Use of Interaction

;Winner * Xerox Map Server, Steve Putz, Xerox PARC ;Honorable Mention * DA-CLOD - Sam Sengupta, Washington U.-St. Louis * Geometry Applications Gallery - U. Minnesota Geometry Center * Weather Map requestor - Charles Henrich, Michigan State U. ;Other Nominees: * 16 Puzzle - Andrew Wilson, U. Cardiff-Wales * Swiss 2D-Page - Geneva U. Hospital ExPASy * SkyView Gateway - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center HEASARC * You Are Here Server - Brandon Plewe, SUNY/Buffalo

Best Use of Multiple Media

;Winner * Le Louvre, Nicolas Pioch, Telecom Paris ;Honorable Mention * ArtServe - Australian National University * Coherent Structure in Turbulent Fluid Flow - Nat. Ctr for Atmospheric Research * Expo - Frans van Hoesel * TNS Technology Demos - MIT Telemedia Networks and Systems Group ;Other Nominees * Een Kwestie van Kiezen (A Matter of Choice) - U. Wageningen, Netherlands * Museum of Paleontology - U. California - Berkeley * Recording Studio - Adam Curry, MTV * Texas History Exhibits - U. Texas-Austin Library * Usenet Image Gallery - Stéphane Bortzmeyer, CNAM, France * XMorphia - Roy Williams, Caltech

Most Technical Merit

;Winner * Map Server, Steve Putz, Xerox PARC ;Honorable Mention * Dutch Teletext Gateway - Arjan de Vet, Eindhoven University * Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry - UMN Geometry Center * Interactive Genetic Art - Scott Reilly and Michael Witbrock, Carnegie-Mellon U. ;Other Nominees * Mother-of-all-BBS' - Oliver McBryan, U. Colorado CS * Monthly Temperature Anomalies - NOAA National Climatic Data Center * Temperature Display - Oliver McBryan, U. Colorado CS * GRN UseNet Article Decoder - George Phillips, U. British Columbia * Say... - Axel Belinfante, U. Twente, Netherlands * SkyView - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

World Wide Web Hall of Fame Inductees

The following people were inducted into the World Wide Web Hall of Fame for their contributions and influence. The inductees received a Chromachron watch, engraved with the WWW logo. *

Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a profes ...

, CERN *

Marc Andreessen Marc Lowell Andreessen ( ; born July 9, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silico ...

, Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSA * Eric Bina, Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSA * Kevin Hughes, InMobi, formerly at Honolulu C.C. * Rob Hartill, Los Alamos National Lab, formerly at U. Wales College at Cardiff *

Lou Montulli Louis J. Montulli II (best known as Lou Montulli) is a computer programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers. In 1991 and 1992, he co-authored a text web browser called Lynx, with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac, while he w ...

, Netscape Communications Co., formerly at U. Kansas

References

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