PERSON
Bebo White
Bebo White
- Bebo White is a distinguished computer scientist and physicist who worked at the SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and is widely recognized as a pioneer of the World Wide Web.
Key Historical Milestones
- Second Website in the World: In December 1991, after visiting CERN and meeting with Tim Berners-Lee, Bebo set up the very first web server in North America at SLAC, which was the second web server/website in the world.
- This historic server ran on an IBM VM/CMS mainframe and made SPIRES (Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System) databases accessible via the early Web.
Connection to Me
- Bebo participated as a speaker/guest on a couple of Geek Cruises voyages, joining me and other internet and open-source pioneers to share early web and scientific computing history.
What links here
These facts are as Randal recalls them, but much time has passed for most of this. If you find a factual error, please email realmerlyn@gmail.com.