What did CERN do in 1993?

Released web software royalty-free

First Web Browser Quiz: WorldWideWeb on a NeXT Computer

This first web browser quiz clicks the very first link. Play 10 interactive questions on Tim Berners-Lee's 1989 proposal at CERN, a manager's note calling it vague but exciting, the WorldWideWeb browser and editor on a NeXT computer, its renaming to Nexus, HTML, HTTP and URLs, the first website, the Line Mode Browser and the free release of web software in 1993.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Who
Who wrote the first web browser?
Where
Where did he work?
Name
What was the first browser called?
Comp
On which computer was it written?
Edit
What else could the first browser do?
Year
In which year was the browser created?
Note
How did a manager describe the original proposal?
Tech
Which technologies did Berners-Lee create?
Line
Which simpler browser worked on many terminals?
Free
What did CERN do in 1993?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who wrote the first web browser?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
A British scientist.
Q2: Where did he work?
Answer: CERN
Near Geneva.
Q3: What was the first browser called?
Answer: WorldWideWeb
Later renamed Nexus.
Q4: On which computer was it written?
Answer: A NeXT computer
Founded by Steve Jobs.
Q5: What else could the first browser do?
Answer: Edit web pages
Browser and editor.
Q6: In which year was the browser created?
Answer: 1990
After a 1989 proposal.
Q7: How did a manager describe the original proposal?
Answer: Vague but exciting
Mike Sendall's note.
Q8: Which technologies did Berners-Lee create?
Answer: HTML, HTTP and URLs
The web's foundations.
Q9: Which simpler browser worked on many terminals?
Answer: The Line Mode Browser
Text only.
Q10: What did CERN do in 1993?
Answer: Released web software royalty-free
Letting it grow.

WorldWideWeb on a NeXT

In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN near Geneva, proposed a system for sharing information. His manager, Mike Sendall, famously wrote vague but exciting on the proposal and let him continue.

In 1990, working on a NeXT computer, a machine from the company Steve Jobs founded, Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, later renamed Nexus. It was both a browser and an editor. He also created HTML, HTTP and URLs, the foundations of the web, and the first website.

A simpler Line Mode Browser let people on many kinds of terminals browse in text. In 1993 CERN released the web software royalty-free, allowing the web to grow rapidly around the world.

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Who wrote the browser
Where it was made
What it could do
Which technologies he invented
How the web spread

Did You Know?

The first website explained the web itself.
Mosaic later popularized graphical browsing.
Berners-Lee founded the W3C.
He was knighted in 2004.
The NeXT computer is in a museum.