The first GUI Web browser is developed by Tim Berners-Lee. Mike Sendall, Tim's boss, Oks the purchase of a NeXT cube, and allows Tim to go ahead and write a global hypertext system.
Tim starts work on a hypertext GUI browser+editor
using the NeXTStep development environment. He makes up
"WorldWideWeb" as a name for the program (first
screenshot). "World Wide Web" as a name for the
project (over Information Mesh, Mine of Information, and
Information Mine).
Project original proposal reformulated with encouragement from
CN and ECP divisional management. Robert Cailliau (ECP)
joins and is co-author of new version .
Initial WorldWideWeb program development continues on the NeXT. This was a "what you see is what you get" (wysiwyg) browser/editor with direct inline creation of links. The first web server was nxoc01.cern.ch, later called info.cern.ch, and the first web page http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site.
Technical Student Nicola Pellow (CN) joins and starts work on the line-mode browser. Bernd Pollermann (CN) helps get interface to CERNVM "FIND" index running. TBL gives a colloquium on hypertext in general.
Line mode browser and WorldWideWeb browser/editor demonstrable. Acces is possible to hypertext files, CERNVM "FIND", and Internet news articles.