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Tim Berners-Lee created the first website info.cern.ch at CERN in 1990. It was a simple page explaining what the World Wide Web was and how to set up a web server. Along with it, he also built WorldWideWeb (renamed Nexus), the first-ever web browser, which only ran on NeXT computers. This is not to be confused with the "World Wide Web" aka: the internet, which seems to be a common mistake. Unfortunately the browser is no longer available that I have found.

The second browser? That was Line Mode Browser, released in 1992. Unlike WorldWideWeb, it could run on multiple operating systems and was the first browser many people used to access the web. You can still get the source code for Line Mode Browser, or launch the simulator line-mode.cern.ch

The internet was never the same again.

#CERN #WorldWideWeb #InternetHistory #FOSS #Nexus #LineModeBrowser #WeLiveInASimulation

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Jeremy Wright Feb 15, 2025

@fraggle Is this the source code you are looking for?

https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb

Related article: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/code/

GitHub - cynthia/WorldWideWeb: Last publicly available revision of the world's first web browser. This is a source import from 0.15 for NextStep. Originally written by @timbl.

Last publicly available revision of the world's first web browser. This is a source import from 0.15 for NextStep. Originally written by @timbl. - cynthia/WorldWideWeb

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fraggle Feb 15, 2025

@jmwright well, apparently so! I hadn't looked in a few years. Looks like it got cobbled back together in 2019 and you can play with it in a modern browser too.
worldwideweb30.com

Thank you so much for adding this Jeremy, much appreciation.