

Bruce, developed it so that lawyers could have access to legal information available only in hypertext at the time.ĬERN created the world’s second Web browser–the text-only “Line Mode Browser”–in 1990 so that the Web would be accessible across all platforms via Telnet. Viola(click on thumbnail to see the full sized picture)Ĭello was the first Web browser for Microsoft Windows (version 3.1, in fact). (click on thumbnail to see the full sized picture) The browser was a primitive affair with no graphics, but users could edit Web pages from within the browser itself. The earliest versions ran only on NeXTSTEP, an advanced graphical OS designed for Steve Jobs’s NeXT computers. Here it is: the world’s first Web browser.
