[Infowarrior] - Feb. 26, 1991: Just Browsing

[Richard Forno]

Feb. 26, 1991: Just Browsing

By Tony Long| Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Feb, 26, 2007

1991: Tim Berners-Lee, the acknowledged inventor of the World Wide Web,
introduces WorldWideWeb, the first practical web browser.

The first version, which Berners-Lee completed on Christmas Day 1990 using a
NeXT computer, was released first to a group of physicists, and its use
spread outward from there.

WorldWideWeb, later renamed Nexus in order to avoid confusing it with the
World Wide Web, was the first program to use both the file transfer protocol
and hypertext transfer protocol, another Berners-Lee invention. HTTP
simplified the linkup between client and server, making the transfer of text
and images a more seamless process and facilitating the growth of the web.

WorldWideWeb entered the public domain in 1993.

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