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Last publicly available revision of the world's first web browser. This is a source import from 0.15 for NextStep. Originally written by @timbl.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2020-01-28 · latest 2026-02-20

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  1. …IMHO this should have been (something along the lines of) GNUstep + TimBL's original code (mirror: https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb ) + Emscripten + getting Emscripten to work with ObjC. Now, that would have been cool. This is the…
    comment by lysace · 2026-02-20 · in CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)
  2. The repo is incomplete, a lot of files are missing. https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb seems to be a more complete snapshot.
    comment by ck45 · 2024-08-04 · in 1991 WWW-NeXT Implementation
  3. Ever heard of the World Wide Web? https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb
    comment by rileyphone · 2022-08-11 · in Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984)
  4. …t.org/browsers/archive/worldwideweb/NeX... WWWNextStep_0.15.tar.gz is dated 1993. It's imported here: https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb/ Oh, but what is this: https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb/blob/master/NextStep... 26 March…
    comment by js2 · 2021-08-26 · in Why are hyperlinks blue?
  5. …as of 1991 (the earliest known code), it was still a black underline in the code. See line 640 of https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb/blob/master/NextStep... As of March 1991 he was contemplating providing color underlines, see line 61…
    comment by SeanLuke · 2021-08-26 · in Why are hyperlinks blue?
  6. This is linked in the article: https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb/tree/master/NextStep...
    comment by kencausey · 2021-06-16 · in Sir Tim Berners-Lee is selling the first web browser’s code as an NFT
  7. The source code for WorldWideWeb is available: https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb . I've got it in the back of my mind to try to get it building at some point (either in Previous, or on real hardware; I have a few working NeXT…
    comment by armadsen · 2020-09-29 · in Steve Jobs and the usable computer (2011)
  8. …https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/code/ and a github mirror that appears to contain a usable app bundle: https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb
    comment by wtallis · 2020-01-28 · in Installing NextStep OS (OpenStep) in VirtualBox (2018)