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==Development and history== [[File:Cello old.gif|thumb|The icon prior to version 1]] The development of Cello started in 1992, with beta versions planned for June 1993 and a release for July 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/News/9305.html|title=May World-Wide Web News|work=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|access-date=8 June 2010}}</ref><ref name="Sheppard2007">{{Cite book|first=Steve |last=Sheppard|title=The history of legal education in the United States: commentaries and primary sources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XQgrjw9qiqcC&pg=PA1186|access-date=28 March 2010|date=April 2007|publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-58477-690-1|page=1186}}</ref><ref name="pioneering">{{cite web|url=http://1997.webhistory.org/historyday/abstracts.html|title=WEB HISTORY DAY: PIONEERING SOFTWARE AND SITES|publisher=[[The World Wide Web History Project]]|access-date=28 March 2010}}</ref> It was publicly announced on 12 April 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q2/0048.html|title=Plans for cello MS-Windows client|last=Bruce|first=Thomas R.|date=12 April 1993|access-date=28 March 2010}}</ref> The [[Legal Information Institute]] at [[Cornell Law School]] created the first law site on the Internet in 1992 and the first legal [[website]] in 1993. However, at the time, there were no [[web browser]]s for the [[Microsoft Windows]] operating system, which was used by most lawyers. Thus, to allow lawyers to use their website, the Legal Information Institute developed the first Windows-based Web browser.<ref name="Ambrogi2004">{{Cite book|first=Robert J. |last=Ambrogi|title=The essential guide to the best (and worst) legal sites on the Web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4oETB8_EbIC|access-date=28 March 2010|date=1 June 2004|publisher=ALM Publishing|isbn=978-1-58852-117-0|page=22|chapter=Chapter 3: The Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web|chapter-url=http://www.law.com/pdf/sfb/WorstCh03.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Okin2005">{{cite book|first=J. R. |last=Okin|title=The information revolution: the not-for-dummies guide to the history, technology, and use of the World Wide Web|url=https://archive.org/details/informationrevol0000okin|url-access=registration |access-date=2 April 2010|date=30 September 2005|publisher=Ironbound Press|isbn=978-0-9763857-3-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/informationrevol0000okin/page/95 95]}}</ref><ref name="Reilly2003">{{Cite book|first=Edwin D. |last=Reilly|title=Milestones in computer science and information technology|url=https://archive.org/details/milestonesincomp0000reil|url-access=registration |access-date=2 April 2010|year=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-521-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/milestonesincomp0000reil/page/33 33]}}</ref> This was made possible by a grant from the [[National Center for Automated Information Research]].<ref group ="A">This can be seen in the "About Cello" dialog in Cello. It is also stated in the "Notices, Acknowledgments, Disclaimers" section of the included .hlp file in Cello.</ref> Although other browsers at the time were based on [[CERN]]'s WWW libraries called [[libwww]], PCs of the time were not powerful enough to run the UNIX-oriented code.<ref name="pioneering"/> As a result, Thomas Bruce had to rewrite most of the WWW libraries to work on [[Microsoft Windows]].<ref name="pioneering"/> Unlike most commercial browsers at that time, Cello used none of [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]]'s source code and thus had a different look and feel.<ref name="Shang-Chul Pak">{{cite thesis |last1=Pak |first1=Sean Sang-Chul |title=Scheme for identifying and describing behavioral innovations embodied in computer programs |date=1996 |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |hdl=1721.1/40608 |type=Thesis }}</ref><ref name="Vaughan-Nichols1995">{{Cite book|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|title=Inside the World Wide Web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3IMV7TgH-igC|access-date=4 June 2010|date=September 1995|publisher=New Riders |isbn=978-1-56205-412-0|pages=186β187}}</ref> Steven Sinofsky, president of the [[Windows (operating system)|Windows]] division at [[Microsoft]] wrote in a June 1994 email: ''We do not currently plan on any other client software [in the upcoming release of Windows 95], especially something like Mosaic or Cello.''<ref name="antitrust doj">{{cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f2600/2613-1.htm|title=U.S. v. Microsoft: Proposed Findings of Fact|work=Civil Action No. 98-1232 (TPJ) |publisher=US DOJ|access-date=10 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.cnet.com/Justice-counters-MS-claims/2100-1001_3-205644.html|title=Justice counters MS claims|last=Goodin |first=Dan |date=20 November 1997|publisher=CNET News |access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Browser Memos Pose Challenge To Microsoft |first=Steve |last=Lohr |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/05/business/browser-memos-pose-challenge-to-microsoft.html|work=The New York Times|date=5 November 1998 |access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref><ref name="wired1">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1998/08/14304|title=Justice: MS Floating 'Old Ideas'|last= Scoblionkov|first=Deborah|date=7 August 1998|magazine=Wired|access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref> Nevertheless, on 11 January 1995, Microsoft announced that it had licensed the Mosaic technology from [[Spyglass, Inc.|Spyglass]], which it would use to create [[Internet Explorer]].<ref name="wired1" /> On 15 August 1995, [[Microsoft]] debuted its own web browser [[Internet Explorer 1]] for [[Windows 95]]. While it did not ship with the original release of Windows 95, it shipped with Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95.
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