Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The First Browser – WorldWideWeb (Nexus)



Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web or WWW in 1989, to distinguish
between the program and the abstract information space “www” which was typed in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). WorldWideWeb was written in Objective-C and it would let users browse “http:”, “news:”, “ftp:” and local “file:” spaces.The browser was the best at the time, since it was the only one The menu bar looked like a primitive version of the Windows Desktop, and clicking on it would provide a list of options similar to the Windows of today.

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