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

Honolulu Community College

Honolulu Community College is a public, co-educational commuter college in Honolulu, Hawaii.The campus is located at 874 Dillingham Bloulevard, north of downtown Honolulu between Honolulu harbor and the neighborhood of Kapālama, at ....

 (HCC). 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

World Wide Web Conference 1

The first World Wide Web Conference which was organized by Robert Cailliau was held at Geneva, Switzerland from May 25 to May 27 in 1994 and was hosted by CERN....

 in 1994.

He developed the "imagemap

Image map

In HTML and XHTML , an image map is a list of coordinates relating to a specific image, created in order to hyperlink areas of the image to various destinations . For example, a map of the world may have each country hyperlinked to further information about that country...

" and created one of the first campus web sites, including novel (at the time) ideas such as a virtual tour of a campus museum. Hughes later developed seminal technologies for numerous commerce web sites. He also designed the original public domain icons that come with the Apache HTTP Server

Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache , is web server software notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone...

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External links

• Kevcom