WorldWideWeb

WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first web browser and web page editor. It was discontinued in 1994. It was the first WYSIWYG HTML editor.

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 (1990-12-25)
Final release
0.18  / 1994 (1994)
Written inObjective-C
Operating systemNeXTSTEP
Available inEnglish
TypeWeb browser, Web authoring tool
LicensePublic-domain software
Websitew3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html

The source code was released into the public domain on 30 April 1993. 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. 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.

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