WorldWideWeb
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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.
Key facts
- Software.name
- WorldWideWeb
- Software.logo
- WorldWideWeb Icon.png
- Software.caption
- WorldWideWeb, 1994
- Software.developer
- Tim Berners-Lee for CERN
- Software.discontinued
- yes
- Software.programming language
- Objective-C
- Software.operating system
- NeXTSTEP
- Software.language
- English
- Software.genre
- Web browser, Web authoring tool
- Software.license
- Public-domain software
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- HTML editor
- Creator
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Developer
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Official website
- www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html
- Image
- WorldWideWeb.png
- Has use
- web browser
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- Commons category
- WorldWideWeb
- discoverer or inventor
- Tim Berners-Lee
- operating system
- NeXTSTEP
- copyright status
- public domain
- software version identifier
- 0.17
- source code repository URL
- www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation
- programmed in
- Objective-C
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Features
- See also
- References
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WorldWideWeb” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.