WorldWideWeb, c. undefined 1994
Line Mode Browser displaying the German Wikipedia
Traditional browser arrangement: UI features above page content
WorldWideWeb, c. undefined 1994
Line Mode Browser displaying the German Wikipedia
Nicola Pellow and Tim Berners-Lee in 1992
Marc Andreessen, lead developer of Mosaic and Navigator, in 2007

WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first web browser and web page editor.

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The Line Mode Browser (also known as LMB, WWWLib, or just www ) is the second web browser ever created.

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In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee had already written the first browser, WorldWideWeb (later renamed to Nexus), but that program only worked on the proprietary software of NeXT computers, which were in limited use.

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By this time, several others, including Bernd Pollermann, Robert Cailliau, Jean-François Groff, and visiting undergraduate student Nicola Pellow – who later wrote the Line Mode Browser – were involved in the project.

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The first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

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He then recruited Nicola Pellow to write the Line Mode Browser, which displayed web pages on dumb terminals.

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Nicola Pellow with Tim Berners-Lee in their office at CERN in Switzerland, 1992

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English mathematician and information scientist who was one of the nineteen members of the WWW Project at CERN working with Tim Berners-Lee.

English mathematician and information scientist who was one of the nineteen members of the WWW Project at CERN working with Tim Berners-Lee.

Nicola Pellow with Tim Berners-Lee in their office at CERN in Switzerland, 1992

Almost immediately after Berners-Lee completed the WorldWideWeb web browser for the NeXT platform Pellow was tasked with creating a browser using her recently acquired skills in the C programming language.

The outcome was that she wrote the first generic Line Mode Browser that could run on non-NeXT systems.