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To: RTev who wrote (25503)	7/5/1999 7:13:00 PM
From: James Wamsley	Respond to of 74651

Thank you -- that's much more than I had hoped for. Your trouble is most appreciated. JimW

To: RTev who wrote (25503)	7/5/1999 7:17:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I failed to link the official Apache site, which is (of course) apache.org It includes a history that doesn't mention the "E" thing, so maybe that was just a myth. apache.org How Apache Came to Be In February of 1995, the most popular server software on the Web was the public domain HTTP daemon developed by Rob McCool at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. However, development of that httpd had stalled after Rob left NCSA in mid-1994, and many webmasters had developed their own extensions and bug fixes that were in need of a common distribution. A small group of these webmasters, contacted via private e-mail, gathered together for the purpose of coordinating their changes (in the form of "patches"). Brian Behlendorf and Cliff Skolnick put together a mailing list, shared information space, and logins for the core developers on a machine in the California Bay Area, with bandwidth donated by HotWired. By the end of February, eight core contributors formed the foundation of the original Apache Group...