WorldWideWeb
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 The browser with the window manager from NeXT |
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| developer | Tim Berners-Lee for CERN |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| Current version | 0.18 (January 14, 1994) |
| operating system | NeXTSTEP 3.0 |
| programming language | Objective-C |
| category | Web browser |
| License | Public domain |
| German speaking | No |
| www.w3.org/.../WorldWideWeb.html | |
WorldWideWeb is the first web browser that Tim Berners-Lee developed in autumn 1990 at CERN in the programming language Objective-C under the NeXTStep operating system . WorldWideWeb was later renamed Nexus to make the difference to the World Wide Web clearer.
The program mastered the Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP developed by Berners-Lee in 1989 , the widespread FTP and supported access to news servers. The browser never found widespread use, as it only worked on the NeXTStep environment, which at the time of development was very progressive, but hardly widespread.
On December 25, 1990, WorldWideWeb communicated for the first time with the first web server, also programmed by Berners-Lee, which was contacted via the domain info.cern.ch. Style sheets were supported for formatting websites . The browser was also an editor for HTML documents, but only local documents could be edited. The prototype was not yet able to display graphics embedded in websites ; these were opened in an additional window . WorldWideWeb was able to open all file types supported by NeXTSTEP .
literature
- Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Fischetti: The Web Report. The creator of the World Wide Web on the limitless potential of the Internet . Econ, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-430-11468-3 .
Web links
- Tim Berners-Lee: The WorldWideWeb browser
- Source code, description and screenshots from WorldWideWeb
- Living Internet: Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.w3.org . (accessed on July 6, 2016).