Editing WorldWideWeb (section)

==History==
[[Tim Berners-Lee]] wrote what would become known as WorldWideWeb on a [[NeXT Computer]]<ref name="faq"> {{cite web|title=Frequently asked questions – What were the first WWW browsers?|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#browser|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|access-date=22 July 2010|last=Berners-Lee|first=Tim|author-link=Tim Berners-Lee}}</ref> during the second half of 1990, while working for [[CERN]], a European nuclear research agency. The first edition was completed "some time before" 25 December 1990, according to Berners-Lee, after two months of development.<ref name="timblhistory">{{cite web|last=Berners-Lee|first=Tim|title=A Brief History of the Web|url=http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TimBook-old/History.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|access-date=17 August 2010|author-link=Tim Berners-Lee|year=1993}}</ref> The browser was announced on the [[newsgroups]] and became available to the general public in August 1991.<ref name="timblhistory"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.w3.org/History.html|title=A Little History of the World Wide Web|website=www.w3.org|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref> By this time, several others, including Bernd Pollermann, [[Robert Cailliau]], [[Jean-François Groff]],<ref name="upgrade">{{cite web|title=NeXT editor upgrade proposal|url=http://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation/Upgrade.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|author=Jean-François Groff|access-date=21 June 2010}}</ref> and visiting undergraduate student [[Nicola Pellow]] – who later wrote the [[Line Mode Browser]]  – were involved in the project.<ref name="timblhistory" />

Berners-Lee considered different names for his new application, including ''The Mine of Information'' and ''The Information Mesh,'' before publicly launching the ''WorldWideWeb'' browser in 1991''.''<ref name="cern">{{cite web|title=Welcome to info.cern.ch |url=http://info.cern.ch/|publisher=CERN|access-date=25 July 2010}}</ref> When a new version was released in 1994, it was renamed ''Nexus Browser'', in order to differentiate between the software (''WorldWideWeb'') and the [[World Wide Web]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Boulton|first=Jim|title=The Nexus Browser {{!}} Digital Archaeology|url=https://digital-archaeology.org/the-nexus-browser/|access-date=2021-06-15|language=en-US}}</ref>

The team created so called "passive browsers" which do not have the ability to edit because it was hard to [[Porting|port]] this feature from the NeXT system to other [[operating system]]s. Porting to the [[X Window System]] was not possible as nobody on the team had experience with the X Window System.<ref name="IEEE"/>

Berners-Lee and Groff later adapted many of WorldWideWeb's components into a [[C (programming language)|C programming language]] version, creating the [[libwww]] [[Application programming interface|API]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Web Browser History|url=http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_browse.htm|publisher=Living Internet |first=Bill |last=Stewart|access-date=2 June 2010}}</ref>

A number of early browsers appeared, notably [[ViolaWWW]]. They were all eclipsed by [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] in terms of popularity, which by 1993 had replaced the WorldWideWeb program. Those involved in its creation had moved on to other tasks, such as defining standards and guidelines for the further development of the World Wide Web (e.g. [[HTML]], and various [[communication protocol]]s).{{cn|date=December 2020}}

On 30 April 1993, the CERN directorate released the source code of WorldWideWeb into the [[public domain]]. Several versions of the software are still available on the web in various states.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://browsers.evolt.org/?worldwideweb/NeXT|title=browsers.evolt.org|website=browsers.evolt.org}}</ref> Berners-Lee initially considered releasing it under the [[GNU General Public License]], but after hearing rumors that companies might balk at the concept if any licensing issues were involved, he eventually opted to release it into the [[public domain]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.governingwithcode.org/case_studies/pdf/NCSAmosaic.pdf|title=History of Libwww|page=3|access-date=2007-02-14|archive-date=2009-09-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090916142158/http://www.governingwithcode.org/case_studies/pdf/NCSAmosaic.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>  In 2021, [[Sotheby's]] held an auction for an [[NFT]] of the WorldWideWeb [[source code]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/this-changed-everything-source-code-for-www-x-tim-berners-lee-an-nft/source-code-for-the-www |title=Source Code for the WWW &#124; This Changed Everything: Source Code for WWW x Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT &#124; 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57666335 |title=Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m |date=30 June 2021 }}</ref>