This is the first web browser, originally written by Tim Berners-Lee. For further details, refer to this wikipedia article or the original website
The original source was obtained from this site.
I have no idea how to make this compile or run. This repository was created as a means of archiving a piece of history. The original software was written on a NextStep computer, using NextStep specific APIs. (And no, they are not compatible with Cocoa. I checked.)
It may be possible to build and run this on a NextStep emulator such as Previous, but I don't know if anyone has tried and succeeded.
If you ever do get this to run, please let me know!
IMPORTANT: Get and read the files COPYRIGHT and CERN before downloading
other files.
This directory contains binaries for the NeXTSTEP Web browser
application.
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THE EDITOR
WorldWideWeb_0.16.tar.Z is the only wysiwyg hypertext editor for the
NeXT. It has limitations and bugs -- it can't access Gopher, FTP sites,
etc. But it is a hypertext editor!
Note this app is compiled for NextStep 3.0 and won't work with 2.1.
There is no way round this; don't ask! (The Project file is
converted by the ProjectBuilder to a version 3 project file
when you first compile for version 3. The version 3 project
file won't work with 2.0 (Interface builder and project builder
shared a file and an app in 2.x), and so there is no going back!
The 3.x app won't work under 2.x as it needs 3.x shared libaries.)
THE BROWSER
The file labelled 1.0 is a pre-alpha browser which uses the libwww
library, so you can get multimedia files etc etc. Does doc
format conversion, etc.
THE EDITOR DOES NOT WORK. NOT SUPPORTED....
It can't edit -- try and it will destroy your files!
Only for the curious. This DOES handle Gopher, FTP, etc.
Sorry they have the same icon now ... can be very confusing
if you use both.
timbl
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[Also, note that the WorldWideWeb_2.01* and WWW.app_2.02* files untar
into an application called Nexus.app, rather than WorldWideWeb.app .
---Jay Sekora <[email protected]>, August 1995]
Copyright 1995 by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), CERN
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