Post by Lone Wanderer on Feb 22, 2019 0:12:57 GMT
CERN decided to take a nostalgic trip back in time to celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of Tim Berner-Lee's proposal that gave way to the world wide web. He wrote the proposal and 1989, and then built the first browser in 1990 on a NeXT machine.
The world's first browser was obviously rudimentary by today's standards, and if you're curious about it—or just want to see webpages in their monochrome glory, without ads and tracking cookies and everything else—you can now give it a whirl.
As implemented, it's a browser within a browser, so you still need Chrome or Firefox, or whatever you use. Navigation is not straightforward, either—to visit a webpage, you have to navigate of a series of pull-down menus. Specifically, click on Document > Open from full document reference and then type in the full URL. Protip: double-click on links to navigate a page.
Shown at the top of this article is how PC Gamer in its modern form would have looked in 1990 on the first browser, had this site been around back then. It's not totally accurate, of course—this site would have been coded differently. Still, it's neat to see what today's webpages look like in a time machine.
As implemented, it's a browser within a browser, so you still need Chrome or Firefox, or whatever you use. Navigation is not straightforward, either—to visit a webpage, you have to navigate of a series of pull-down menus. Specifically, click on Document > Open from full document reference and then type in the full URL. Protip: double-click on links to navigate a page.
Shown at the top of this article is how PC Gamer in its modern form would have looked in 1990 on the first browser, had this site been around back then. It's not totally accurate, of course—this site would have been coded differently. Still, it's neat to see what today's webpages look like in a time machine.
