The #Web was invented on 12 March 1989, but by the end of 1990, @timberners_lee had written the WorldWideWeb which was both a reader and an editor of Web pages
As you may know, today is the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Hooray! #Web30 #ForTheWeb So, let's look at a really important part of its history: Did you know, from the start, the very first web browser was designed to help you read *and write* the web? This is IMPORTANT.
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The code of WorldWideWeb, later renamed Nexus, the world's first #WebBrowser, is on #github. This is a source import from 0.15 for NextStep.
github.com/cynthia/WorldWide…
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If you feel nostalgic and want to browse old Web pages on a variety of virtual old #browsers, try oldweb.today/ - it includes WWW on NextStep - e.g. oldweb.today/WWW/w3.org/ The infrastructure behind that service itself is also on #github github.com/oldweb-today/netc…
Mar 13, 2019 · 3:24 PM UTC
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In 2013, @CERN convened 12 Web developers, designers, writers, standardistas, and technologists to rebuild the line-mode browser in the modern #browsers. Read the #MakingOf: line-mode.cern.ch/makingof/
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Last month, some of these brilliant developers/designers and others were asked to show how pages would look in WorldWideWeb by rebuilding its UI and rendering in HTML/CSS/JS. Anyone can play with it at worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser - try to open a URL! 😁worldwideweb.cern.ch/images/…
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Now, wouldn't it be fun to get the original WorldWideWeb as a #WebAssembly compiled module in recent browsers? Is that even doable? Let us know! 🗣️
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If you want to help the #Web keep track of its own history, the @w3c Web History #CommunityGroup collects valuable information such as software, documents, testimonials, etc. This group is open to all, so if you have a resource to share, please do so! w3.org/community/webhistory/
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