WorldWideWeb
First web browser, later renamed Nexus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Developer(s) | Tim Berners-Lee for CERN |
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Initial release | 25 December 1990; 33 years ago (1990-12-25)[1] |
Final release | |
Repository | |
Written in | Objective-C[1] |
Operating system | NeXTSTEP[1] |
Available in | English |
Type | Web browser, Web authoring tool |
License | Public-domain software |
Website | w3 |
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]