The very first Web Browser - 30 years old

jomeszaros (66)in #www • 6 years ago (edited)

This year, the World Wide Web will be 30 years old, and CERN (European Nuclear Research Organization) has come up with a separate project to announce a little bit of nostalgia and show how the Internet that is now a fully evolved networking system has started. You can try it here : https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser

"Tim Berners-Lee's original World Wide Web browser
A screen shot taken from a NeXT computer running Tim Berners-Lee's original WorldWideWeb browser. It has taken a long time for technology to catch up with Berners-Lee's original vision. The first ever web browser was also an editor, making the web an interactive medium, the problem was that it only ran on the NeXTStep operating system. With recent phenomena like blogs and wikis, the web is beginning to develop the kind of collaborative nature that its inventor envisaged from the start."

This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web:

And who was behind NeXT? NeXT, Inc was an American computer and software company founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs.

Who invented the term Hypertext? Hypertext is text which contains links to other texts. The term was coined by Ted Nelson around 1965 (see History ). HyperMedia is a term used for hypertext which is not constrained to be text: it can include graphics, video and sound , for example. Apparently Ted Nelson was the first to use this term too. He is still posting videos on youtube, worth to check.