The server was pretty much neglected when McCool left NCSA to start a new job. He collected the code in the fledgling Internet. Rob McCool worked at NCSA in the early 1990s and was awarded the contract to develop a web server that was not as complex as the one CERN preferred to use at the time. The HTTP daemon ( httpd) from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) was the precursor to the Apache server. Apache projects such as Hadoop, Cassandra, Tomcat, and Spark have enjoyed great popularity in data centers for years, but the venerable HTTP server is the tool that laid the foundation of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
