CERN Rebuilds Original 1990 WorldWideWeb Browser for 30th Anniversary
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Summary
In 2019, a team of developers and designers gathered at CERN to rebuild the original WorldWideWeb browser from 1990 within a modern browser. This project commemorated the 30th anniversary of the web's creation, allowing users worldwide to experience the humble origins of the web through the original NeXT browser interface.
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This program – WorldWideWeb — is the antecedent of most of what we consider or know of as 'the web' today.
In February 2019, in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the development of WorldWideWeb, a group of developers and designers convened at CERN to rebuild the original browser within a contemporary browser.
allowing users around the world to experience the rather humble origins of this tran
2019 rebuilding of the original NeXT web browser
