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WorldWideWeb

The first web browser was built here,
on this platform, in 1990.

Click WorldWideWeb in the Dock
to begin browsing.

"Information Management: A Proposal" — T. Berners-Lee, CERN, 1989
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WorldWideWeb — the first browser

This is a recreation of the environment where the World Wide Web was born. In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee built the first web browser on a NeXT Computer at CERN.

Select a link from the Hyperlinks panel,
or enter a URL in the address field.

"The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents." — T. Berners-Lee, 1991
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About this recreation

This demo recreates the NeXTSTEP desktop environment — the platform where Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

The browser window uses BrowserBox to render real, live web pages — the same web that was born on a machine like this.

1989 — Berners-Lee proposes the Web at CERN
1990 — First browser built on NeXTSTEP
1991 — Web goes public
2026 — You are here

Powered by BrowserBox remote browser isolation.