{"id":1713,"date":"2013-04-30T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2013-04-30T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:58:42","slug":"libwww-released-20-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"libwww released 20 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-online.com\/open\/news\/item\/The-world-changing-libwww-is-20-years-old-today-1853085.html\">The H Online reminds<\/a> us that 20 years ago <acronym title=\"Centre Europ\u00e9ene pour la Recherche Nucl\u00e9aire \/ European Nuclear Research Centre\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cern.ch\/\">CERN<\/a><\/acronym> in Geneva gave Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau official permission to release the libwww library free of charge, according to Berners-Lee, &#8220;to create a server or a browser, to give it away or sell it, without any royalty or other constraint&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Since then this act of altruism on the part of CERN has had a profound effect on the world of communications. libwww (Library World Wide Web) is a highly modular client-side web <acronym title=\"Application Programming Interface\">API<\/acronym> for Unix and Windows, as well as being the name of the reference implementation of this API. It can be used for both large and small applications, including web browsers\/editors, robots and batch tools.<\/p>\n<p>Its more modern replacement is considered to be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Libcurl\">libcurl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Libwww\">read more about libwww on Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolwireless.net\/2013\/04\/libwww-20-years-old-today\/\">Reposted from Bristol Wireless<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The H Online reminds us that 20 years ago CERN in Geneva gave Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau official permission to release the libwww library free of charge, according to Berners-Lee, &#8220;to create a server or a browser, to give it away or sell it, without any royalty or other constraint&#8221;. Since then this act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,30,9],"tags":[19,12,11,23],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}