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February 26: Introduction of first Broswer - WorldWideWeb

February 26, 2013

February 26, 1991: Sir Tim Berners Lee Shows the WorldWideWeb via Browser


1991Sir Tim Berners-Lee showed everyone the first web browser and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor. The Browsers’ name was called “WorldWideWeb”, but was later changed to “Nexus”. Berners-Lee ran it on the NeXTSTEP platform and worked with not only the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Nexus is not in production anymore.Wikazine – Full show notes for February 26


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