WorldWideWeb

:This article is about the first web browser. For the distributed hypertext system, see World Wide Web.
WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first web browser"The WorldWideWeb browser" - W3C and web page editor"Interview Robert Cailliau on the WWW Proposal: How It Really Happened." - Petrie, Charles; Cailliau, Robert (November 1997). released by Tim Berners-Lee on December 25, 1990. It was discontinued in 1994. It was the first WYSIWYG HTML editor.
==Features==
The WorldWideWeb web browsers does not have bookmarks, which are used by modern web browsers, but a similar feature was provided: to save a link for later use, users could link to it from their own home page. Besides this, there are several features of WorldWideWeb, such as a WYSIWYG editor, and is capable of displaying basic style sheets.
==History==
During the second half of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, still working at CERN, wrote what would become known as WorldWideWeb on a NeXT Computer. He released the first version of the web browser on December 25, 1990. By this time, several others, including Bernd Pollermann, Robert Cailliau, Jean-François Groff,Jean-François Groff. "NeXT editor upgrade proposal" and visiting undergraduate student Nicola Pellow – who later wrote the Line Mode Browser – were involved in the project.
Berners-Lee considered different names for his new application, including The Mine of Information and The Information Mesh, before publicly launching the WorldWideWeb browser in 1991.Welcome to info.cern.ch - CERN When a new version was released in 1994, it was renamed Nexus Browser to avoid confusion with the World Wide Web.
On April 30, 1993, the CERN directorate released the source code of WorldWideWeb into the public domain.browsers.evolt.org
==See Also==
*WorldWideWeb in Wikipedia.
==References==
Category:Web browsers
Category:Discontinued web browsers