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Christopher Harper

Relive surfing the original internet with new emulator — 34 years later, WorldWideWeb app commemorates the first web browser

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Screenshot from within Web Design Museum's WorldWideWeb browser emulator.

The Web Design Museum is playing its part in the Christmas festivities by highlighting the 34th anniversary of the release date of the first-ever web browser and web page editor, an application called WorldWideWeb, and the museum has created a nifty web app emulator to celebrate the occasion. You can try the emulator here.

The WorldWideWeb browser is a truly seminal piece of computer software, to say the least. Developed by the inventor of the Internet, it was the first application to allow Internet access and made creating and editing hypertext (HTML) from within the application super accessible. The WorldWideWeb browser would later be renamed to Nexus so the browser wouldn't be confused with the term for the "World Wide Web (Internet)" it's used to connect to.

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