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== History ==
One of the fundamental concepts of the "[[World Wide Web]]" projects at [[CERN]] was "[[Cross-platform|universal readership]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=W3 Concepts|url=http://www.w3.org/Talks/General/Concepts.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|access-date=20 July 2005|author-link=Tim Berners-Lee|first=Tim|last=Berners-Lee|quote=The W3 principle of universal readership is that once information is available, it should be accessible from any type of computer, in any country, and an (authorized) person should only have to use one simple program to access it.}}</ref> In 1990, [[Tim Berners-Lee]] had already written the first browser, [[WorldWideWeb]] (later renamed to ''Nexus''), but that program only worked on the proprietary software of [[NeXT]] computers, which were in limited use.<ref name="tenyarscern" /> Berners-Lee and his team could not port the WorldWideWeb application with its features—including the graphical [[WYSIWYG]] editor— to the more widely deployed [[X Window System]], since they had no experience in programming it.<ref name="IEEE" /> The team recruited [[Nicola Pellow]], a math student intern working at CERN,<ref>{{cite book|title=Weaving the Web|url=https://archive.org/details/weavingweborigin00bern_0|url-access=registration|year=1999|author-link=Tim Berners-Lee|first1=Tim|last1=Berners-Lee|first2=Mark|last2=Fischetti|page=[https://archive.org/details/weavingweborigin00bern_0/page/29 29]|publisher=HarperSanFrancisco|isbn=9780062515865|quote=[...] we needed help. [[Ben Segal (computer scientist)|Ben Segal]] [...] spotted a young intern named Nicola Pellow.}}</ref> to write a "passive browser" so basic that it could run on most computers of that time.<ref name="tenyarscern" />
The name "Line Mode Browser" refers to the fact that, to ensure compatibility with the earliest computer terminals such as [[teleprinter|Teletype machines]], the program only displayed text, (no images) and had only line-by-line text input (no cursor positioning).<ref name="IEEE" /><ref name="living" />
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