WorldWideWeb

This article is about the first web browser. For the distributed hypertext system, see World Wide Web.
WorldWideWeb
Developer(s)Tim Berners-Lee for CERN
Initial release25 December 1990; 33 years ago (1990-12-25)[1]
Final release
0.17 Edit this on Wikidata / 1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Repository
Written inObjective-C[1]
Operating systemNeXTSTEP[1]
Available inEnglish
TypeWeb browser, Web authoring tool
LicensePublic-domain software
Websitew3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html

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] It was discontinued in 1994. It was the first WYSIWYG HTML editor.

The source code was released into the public domain on 30 April 1993.[3][4] Some of the code still resides on Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT Computer in the CERN museum and has not been recovered due to the computer's status as a historical artifact.[5] To coincide with the 20th anniversary of the research center giving the web to the world, a project began in 2013 at CERN to preserve this original hardware and software associated with the birth of the Web.[6]

  1. ^ a b c d Berners-Lee, Tim. "The WorldWideWeb browser". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference IEEE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "The document that officially put the World Wide Web into the public domain on 30 April 1993". CERN. 1993. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference faq was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "The birth of the Web | CERN". home.cern. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  6. ^ Ghosh, Pallab (22 April 2013). "Cern re-creating first web page to revere early ideals". BBC News. Retrieved 30 April 2013.