February 23, 1994: Individual patch authors around the world are invited to join the "new-httpd" mailing list to discuss enhancements and future releases of NCSA
httpd. The Apache name was chosen for this new effort within the first few days of discussion, along with basic rules for email-based collaboration and a mission to replace the existing server with a standards-based, open source, and extensible software system.
NASA's Web server (http://quest.arc.nasa.gov) is a Sun Sparc System 10 running Sun OS and the NCSA
HTTPD 1.5 (National Center for Supercomputer Research - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Daemon).
The Swiss author explains shell scripts, Python, encryption tools, the DLAP data store, the Samba server, MySQL, Apache
HTTPD, the XMail server, the ASSP spam filter, OpenOffice, and Mozilla.
Apache Software Foundation, Configuration files, 2005:
httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/configuring.html
However, development of NCSA
httpd had stalled after Rob McCool left, and many Web masters had developed their own extensions and bug fixes that were in need of a common distribution.
