Before the Grid: the Web

HEP: had the “use case” and invented the WWW in 1989

• developed the idea of html, first browser
• In the late 1980’s Internet technology largely existed:
  • TCP/IP, ftp, telnet, smtp, Usenet
• Early adopters at CERN, SLAC, DESY
  • test beds, showcase applications
• First industrial strength browser: Mosaic ? Netscape
  • “New economy” was just a matter of a couple of years…  as was the end of the dot-coms

DESY IT stood a bit aside in this development:

• IT support was IBM newlib, VMS, DECnet (early 90’s)
• Experiments started own web servers and support until mid-90’s
• Web-based collaborative infrastructure was (maybe still is) experiment specific
  • Publication/document dbases, web calendars, …

Science Web services are (mostly) in the purview of experiments

• Not part of central support, really (that holds for Fermilab, too!)

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