Editing WorldWideWeb (section)

{{Short description|First web browser, later renamed Nexus}}
{{About|the first [[web browser]]|the distributed hypertext system|World Wide Web}}

{{Infobox software
| name = WorldWideWeb
| logo = WorldWideWeb Icon.png
| screenshot = 
| caption = WorldWideWeb, 

 {{circa}} 1994
| developer = [[Tim Berners-Lee]] for [[CERN]]
| released = {{start date and age|1990|12|25|df=y}}<ref name="faq-www" />
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q590890|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|Q590890|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}}}
| discontinued = yes
| programming language = [[Objective-C]]<ref name="faq-www" />
| operating system = [[NeXTSTEP]]<ref name="faq-www" />
| language = English
| genre = [[Web browser]], Web [[authoring system|authoring tool]]
| license = [[Public-domain software]]
| website = {{URL|w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html}}
}}

'''WorldWideWeb''' (later renamed '''Nexus''' to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first [[web browser]]<ref name="faq-www">{{cite web|title=The WorldWideWeb browser|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|access-date=23 July 2010 |author-link=Tim Berners-Lee |first=Tim |last=Berners-Lee}}</ref> and [[web page]] editor.<ref name="IEEE" /> It was discontinued in 1994. It was the first [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]].

The [[source code]] was released into the [[public domain]] on 30 April 1993.<ref>{{cite web|title=The document that officially put the World Wide Web into the public domain on 30 April 1993.|date=1993 |url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399|publisher=CERN|access-date=26 September 2013}}</ref><ref name="faq" />