Apache HTTP Web Server Turns 15
Some belated birthday wishes are in order, as the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the 15th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server on Wednesday.
"A triumph for the all-volunteer Foundation, the Apache HTTP Server reliably delivers petabytes of data across the world’s most demanding uses, including real-time news sources, Fortune 100 enterprise portals, cloud computing clusters, financial services platforms, mission-critical military intelligence applications, aerospace communications networks, and more. The server software can be downloaded, modified and installed by anyone free of charge," the ASF wrote in a blog post.
The Apache Web server was launched on February 23, 1994, and represented ASF's first project. After just 6 months on the scene, it became the world's most popular Web server and has hardly slowed since. Today the Apache HTTP Server powers almost 112 million websites.














