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This article is about the first web browser. For the distributed hypertext system, see World Wide Web.

WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first web browser[1] and web page editor[2] released by Tim Berners-Lee on December 25, 1990. It was discontinued in 1994. It was the first WYSIWYG HTML editor.

Features

The WorldWideWeb web browsers does not have bookmarks, which are used by modern web browsers, but a similar feature was provided: to save a link for later use, users could link to it from their own home page. Besides this, there are several features of WorldWideWeb, such as a WYSIWYG editor, and is capable of displaying basic style sheets.

History

During the second half of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, still working at CERN, wrote what would become known as WorldWideWeb on a NeXT Computer.[3] He released the first version of the web browser on December 25, 1990.[4] By this time, several others, including Bernd Pollermann, Robert Cailliau, Jean-François Groff,[5] and visiting undergraduate student Nicola Pellow – who later wrote the Line Mode Browser – were involved in the project.[4]

Berners-Lee considered different names for his new application, including The Mine of Information and The Information Mesh, before publicly launching the WorldWideWeb browser in 1991.[6] When a new version was released in 1994, it was renamed Nexus Browser to avoid confusion with the World Wide Web.[7]

On April 30, 1993, the CERN directorate released the source code of WorldWideWeb into the public domain.[8]

See Also

References

  1. ↑ "The WorldWideWeb browser" - W3C
  2. ↑ "Interview Robert Cailliau on the WWW Proposal: How It Really Happened." - Petrie, Charles; Cailliau, Robert (November 1997).
  3. ↑ "Frequently asked questions – What were the first WWW browsers?". World Wide Web Consortium.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "A Brief History of the Web". World Wide Web Consortium.
  5. ↑ Jean-François Groff. "NeXT editor upgrade proposal"
  6. ↑ Welcome to info.cern.ch - CERN
  7. ↑ "The Nexus Browser. Boulton, Jim.
  8. ↑ browsers.evolt.org