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Tim Berners-Lee Creates the First Web Browser and Web Server

12/25/1990
WorldWideWeb, c. 1994 as it appeared on Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT computer
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WorldWideWeb, c. 1994 as it may have appeared on Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT computer

During the Christmas holiday, 1990 Tim Berners-Lee wrote the software tools necessary for a working World Wide Web:

1. The first web browser called WorldWideWeb.

2. A WYSIWYG HTML editor

3. The first Web server, CERN httpd. It was operational on Christmas Day 1990.

Timeline Themes

Software
Computer / Digital / Internet Culture
Computers & Society
Internet & Networking