WorldWideWeb
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WorldWideWeb, c. 1993
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| Developer(s) | Tim Berners-Lee for CERN |
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| Initial release | December 25, 1990 |
| Last release | 0.18 (January 14, 1994) |
| Preview release | none (no public release) ((n/a)) |
| Written in | Objective-C |
| Operating system | NeXTSTEP |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Web browser, web authoring tool |
| License | Public domain software |
| Website | www |
WorldWideWeb (later renamed to Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) was the first web browser and editor; it is now discontinued. At the time it was written, it was the sole web browser in existence, as well as the first WYSIWYG HTML editor.
The source code was released into the public domain on April 30, 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 centre 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.
Berners-Lee wrote what would become known as WorldWideWeb on a NeXT Computer during the second half of 1990, while working for CERN. The first successful build was completed by December 25, 1990, after only two months of development. Successive builds circulated among Berners-Lee's colleagues at CERN before being released to the public, by way of Internet newsgroups, in August 1991. By this time, several others, including Bernd Pollermann, Robert Cailliau, Jean-François Groff, and graduate student Nicola Pellow – who wrote the Line Mode Browser – were involved in the project.
Berners-Lee proposed different names for his new application: The Mine of Information and The Information Mesh were proposals. At the end WorldWideWeb was chosen, but later renamed to Nexus to avoid confusion between the World Wide Web and the web browser.
The team created so called "passive browsers" which do not have the ability to edit because it was hard to port this feature from the NeXT system to other operating systems. Porting to the X Window System (X) was not possible as nobody on the team had experience with X.
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