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Kevin Hughes (Internet pioneer)

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Name
  
Kevin Hughes


Role
  
Internet pioneer

Education
  
Honolulu Community College

Kevin Hughes was one of the pioneers of the World Wide Web in the United States, while a student at Honolulu Community College (HCC), in Hawaii.

Contents

He created one of the first campus web sites, including novel (at the time) ideas such as a virtual tour of a campus museum. He also wrote software that was used in early web sites to index web pages: Simple Web Indexing System for Humans, or SWISH.

Developments

Hughes later developed seminal technologies for numerous commerce web sites.

Icon Design

He also designed the original public domain icons that come with the Apache HTTP Server.

Awards

He is one of only six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the first international conference on the World Wide Web in 1994.

References

Kevin Hughes (Internet pioneer) Wikipedia