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Nicola Pellow is an English mathematician and information scientist who was one of the nineteen members of the WWW Project at CERN working with Tim Berners-Lee. She joined the project in November 1990, while an undergraduate maths student enrolled on a sandwich course at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University ).
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As an undergraduate math student, Nicola Pellow joined the nineteen members of the WWW Project at Switzerland's CERN in 1990. Building off her colleague's work, Pellow contributed to the creation of a web browser compatible across many operating systems.
- The Line Mode Browser
- Stepping Back
- Back to The Phonebook
There wasn’t some singular vision for the web. It was accessible to all and disjointed by design, and its development happened only through the parallel efforts of curious programmers around the world. But in order to even access the web (and experiment with it), early adopters needed a client, software that could use HTTP to grab a URI and display...
At the time though, there was one other option. It was called WorldWideWeb and actually predated the Line Mode Browser by about a year. It was created by Berners-Lee at around the same time he came up with the web itself. The World Wide Web built on a lot of great technologies that had come before it, and Berners-Lee kind of mixed together Internet...
Web browsers more or less started with a phonebook. Berners-Lee was an employee at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) when he pitched the idea of the world wide web. CERN is a particle physics lab best known for things like the Large Hadron Collider and generally not all that concerned with hypertext or the Internet. So to actual...
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Nicola Pellow. Nicola joined the project in November 1990, while an undergraduate student at Leicester Polytechnic, UK. She left CERN at the end of August 1991, but returned for another spell with the team after graduating in 1992.
A team made up of Tim Berners-Lee, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen and Nicola Pellow designed a simple browser called Line Mode Browser (The Libwww Line Mode Browser). This was the second browser ever made for the World Wide Web.
Dec 22, 2015 · Nicola Pellow was a Maths undergraduate at DMU, then known as Leicester Polytechnic, when she joined Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Henrik Nielssen to work on the world wide web project at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, in November 1990.
Dec 29, 2015 · By December 25th 1990, Nicola Pellow, a visiting student at CERN, created the first Web browser. This was a simple text-based browser. During 1991, the first real data, the CERN telephone...
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