The Apache group was formed around a number of people who provided patch files that had been written for NCSA httpd 1.3. The result after combining them was A PAtCHy server.
(April 1997)
The new story is not consistent with what their website was saying not very long ago.
I was using web servers at the time, and the "a patchy server" story is what everyone said back then. Nowadays people take it all for granted but Apache was radical at the time, previously people had been running httpd out of inetd.conf (!)
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http://web.archive.org/web/19970415054031/www.apache.org/inf...
(April 1997)
The new story is not consistent with what their website was saying not very long ago.
For what it's worth, that description was on the site from Oct 1996 [1] to Aug 2001 [2].
1.http://web.archive.org/web/19961028123412/http://www.apache.... 2.http://web.archive.org/web/20010803130101/http://www.apache....
I was using web servers at the time, and the "a patchy server" story is what everyone said back then. Nowadays people take it all for granted but Apache was radical at the time, previously people had been running httpd out of inetd.conf (!)