World Wide Web (WWW)

  • Network Protocols
  • HTTP
  • In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee demonstrated the first working WWW version with a brand-new web browser (Nexus) and a server (CERN httpd).

Nexus - The first web browser

  • Tim wrote the first web browser, Nexus in C and Objective-C using the C standard library and the AppKit GUI library in NeXTSTEP OS.
  • You can find the Nexus browser source code from this GitHub repository.

CERN httpd

  • You can find the CERN httpd source code from this GitHub repository.
  • The HTTP protocol was born with the CERN httpd project.

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