BRS WebWeaver was started in in 1998 as a personal learning project. I wanted to figure out how the whole "web" thing worked. What happened when I put "www.netscape.com" in my browser? How did the server know what I want? How did it get it to the browser? What did a "404 error" really mean? So like any good geek, I started writing my own web server. Didn't everyone else?
Since BRS WebWeaver was started as a learning experiment, I just started giving it away. Soon people started downloading it, making requests, wanting new features, defect fixes etc. So I started this web site to host information about BRS WebWeaver. Mostly, I needed a public forum where people could search for answers that I had already given others. I got tired of answering the same question over and over.
Over the years, I just kept adding features. So BRS WebWeaver now has quite a few features packed into the little server. It is more that sufficient for most home users, many developers looking to create PHP sites. There are numerous public websites that use BRS WebWeaver to host their websites.
Yes BRS WebWeaver is completely free. There has never been a fee for using BRS WebWeaver under any circumstances. There will never be a fee for using BRS WebWeaver. Personal, Home, Commercial use - or whatever else you come up with - it's completely free, and always will be.
BRS WebWeaver is written using Borland Delphi. Delphi uses Object Pascal, which is really the fore-barer of Microsoft's C#. For you language geeks, if you think C# was a rip-off of Java - your wrong. Many of the ideas pioneered in Delphi were incorporated into C#. But I guess it's not surprising since Ander Hejlsberg left Borland and went to Microsoft is the driving force behind Delphi and C#.
Blaine R Southam is the sole author of BRS WebWeaver. Blaine got first got paid for writing code in 1986. It was in a chiropractors office creating a patient scheduling/billing system for the 3 Apple IIe computers that they had. They were also connected to an external 40MB (yes Megabyte) hard-drive. I currently work at a very large company writing systems management software.