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Originally Posted by mdnky Huh? You might want to double-check that.  in responce to nixgeek:Heck, the first web page was designed on a NeXT cube!  |
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first web browser, which was also the first web HTML editor app (and it was WYSIWYG by the way), and the first web server were designed and built on a NeXT Cube running NEXTSTEP 2.0.
In the beginning the web (defined as hyper text transport protocol serving hyper text markup language documents) was only for NeXT computers. And the first web page can be found
here... which was (again) made on a NeXT computer.
The first development version of WorldWideWeb.app was made in November 1990. First pages accessible via httpd by NeXT systems started by the end of 1990.
By March of 1991 ports to X11 and Motif had started (line mode browsers, April 1992 for HTML browsers). First port to Macintosh was in December 1992.
The basics of the hyper text markup client were quickly ported to X11, Motif and Macintosh based systems because these were the systems used by scientists, researchers and educators. But the first Windows client would have to wait until after NCSA started making Mosaic (June 1993 for development, first public release was in November 1993). This was due primarily to the fact that DOS/Windows systems were used mainly by secretaries, data entry and home users (none of which needed to be included on the web because it was originally for sharing research information).
The inclusion of Windows on the web marked a giant step backwards. Because of the limitations of DOS/Windows, web extension standards were changed. Before Windows was on the web most file extensions were not limited to three characters (for example
html and
jpeg were the original standard extensions), but because of the
8.3 limitation of DOS/Windows, the web file names took a step backwards until Microsoft was able to catch up with the rest of the computing world.
It should also be noted that Microsoft didn't even do the initial development of Internet Explorer. IE is based on Mosaic.
Hope that helps resolve things.