WorldWideWeb

This article is about the first web browser. For the distributed hypertext system, see World Wide Web.
WorldWideWeb
DeveloperTim Berners-Lee for CERN
Initial release25 December 1990 (1990-12-25)
Final release
0.17  / 1994 (1994)
Written inObjective-C
Operating systemNeXTSTEP
Available inEnglish
TypeWeb browser, Web authoring tool
LicensePublic-domain software
Websitew3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html
Repository

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.

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

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.