CERN httpd is an early, now discontinued, web server (HTTP) daemon originally developed at CERN from 1990 onwards by Tim Berners-Lee, Ari Luotonen and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen. Implemented in C, it was the first web server software.
This NeXT Computer used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN became the world's first web server
A web server is computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP or its secure variant HTTPS. A user agent, commonly a web browser or web crawler, initiates communication by making a request for a web page or other resource using HTTP, and the server responds with the content of that resource or an error message. A web server can also accept and store resources sent from the user agent if configured to do so.
The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge server, a computer designed to be mounted in a rack mount environment. Servers similar to this one are often used as web servers.
Multiple web servers may be used for a high-traffic website.
Server farm with thousands of web servers used for super-high traffic websites
ADSL modem running an embedded web server serving dynamic web pages used for modem configuration