WEB servers history

1981 - IBM VM Machine, the first server list

The first LISTSERV was hosted on IBM Virtual Machine mainframe over BITNET. Allowed LISTSERV email collaboration for groups and also generated the first spam, the wars of the early lists and trolls.

1991 - NeXTcube first web server

The World Wide Web was born in a NeXTcube a 256Mhz processor, 2 GB drive and a monitor in black and white NeXTSEP running on OS. Sir Tim Berners-Lee put the first page online August 6, 1991 while working for CERN in Geneva. He also designed the first web browser and page editor, WorldWideWeb, on the same machine.

1994 - ProLiant server first Rack

Compaq introduced in 1994 its first rackmount server, the ProLiant. P2 had an Intel Xeon 450Mhz, 256MB of RAM, and a CD-ROM 24X processor.

1998 - Sun Ultra II, first server Google

2001 - RLX Blade server first modern format "blade"

2008 - PS3 cluster, distributed processing using GPU

ps3

2009/2012 - cloud computing and beyond

The first major step was the arrival in 1999 of Salesforce, one of the first companies to provide enterprise-level services through a website.

2012 definitely meet further growth in regard to the adoption of cloud computing, especially through the gradual disappearance of fears related to it

safety data, initially expressed by some.