In March 1989 I was sitting at the Cafe Allegro in Seattle and a friend of mine came in with a printout, handed it to me and said that this looks really interesting. It was Sir Tim's paper on Hypertext and the Web. From ZD Net:
CERN's world-first browser reborn: Now you can browse like it's 1990
A team at Switzerland-based research center CERN has rebuilt WorldWideWeb, the world's first browser created in 1990 for its researchers.
The WorldWideWeb browser was built by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 on a NeXT machine, following his March 1989 proposal for a 'Mesh' or global hypertext system for CERN that he would later call the World Wide Web.
The WorldWideWeb browser simulator is now available online to view in a modern browser. For anyone curious to know how to use it, the developers have provided written instructions and a video demo.
Opening a webpage in the browser involves selecting 'Document' from the menu, then selecting 'Open from full document reference', and typing in a URL such as http://w3c.org. Once inside a document, navigation requires double-clicking links.
Really fun times.
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