A report on WorldWideWeb and Line Mode Browser
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.
- Line Mode BrowserBy 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.
- WorldWideWeb3 related topics with Alpha
Web browser
1 linksApplication software for accessing the World Wide Web or a local website.
Application software for accessing the World Wide Web or a local website.
The first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
He then recruited Nicola Pellow to write the Line Mode Browser, which displayed web pages on dumb terminals.
Nicola Pellow
1 linksEnglish 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.
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.
Libwww
0 linksModular client-side web API for Unix and Windows.
Modular client-side web API for Unix and Windows.
In 1991 and 1992, Tim Berners-Lee and a student at CERN named Jean-François Groff rewrote various components of the original WorldWideWeb browser for the NeXTstep operating system in portable C code, in order to demonstrate the potential of the World Wide Web.
From 1995 onwards, the Line Mode Browser was no longer released separately, but part of the libwww package.