One fun fact — in its doodle dedicated to 30th anniversary of World Wide Web, Google used stylized picture of desktop computer, that pretty much
resembles the IBM PC, especially the AT and PCjr models.
But it’s widely known that Sir Tim Berners-Lee — “father” of WWW (which we call simply “Internet” nowadays) — used the NeXTcube computer to develop and run the very first Web server and Web browser.
This computer was the property of CERN and it’s been designed and produced by the NeXT Inc, which was established by Steve Jobs in 1985 after he left the Apple. The company’s goal was to produce the high-end computers, and NeXTCube totally was the one of:
- 17″display at 1120×832
- 25 MHz Motorola 68k with integrated FPU
- 16 to 64 MB of RAM
- 400 MB to 2.8GB HDD
- UNIX-based graphical OS NeXTSTEP
Similar specs were achieved only by top models of IMB PS/2 in 1990’s. And 80’s PC were not exactly suitable for Web.
P.S. Don’t take it too seriously. The title is just a joke ?