> > Just because Mosaic was the first publicly available browser... > > Excuse me for mentioning the obvious but, didn't Berners-Lee, > et al. have to use something when they created the World Wide Web? > > To quote the man himself, "The first web browser - or browser-editor > rather - was called WorldWideWeb as, after all, when it was > written in 1990 it was the only way to see the web. Much later > it was renamed Nexus in order to save confusion between the > program and the abstract information space (which is now > spelled with spaces)." > > http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html > > ... And to think, the web was created on a NeXT workstation. ;) There's never any harm in mentioning the obvious. I don't know if you could get a copy of Nexus back then, but most of us didn't have NeXT boxes; when I said publicly available, I guess I should have elaborated! Other good things have been created on NeXT as well - I seem to recall that id Software used it for Quake maps. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists or send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
