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The first web browser

English computer scientist Tim Berners - Lee (the man considered as the father of the World Wide Web) released the World Wide Web browser on December 25, 1990. It is widely believed to be the first-ever Internet web browser and editor and was later renamed Nexus so as to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web. When it was written, World Wide Web was the only way to view the Web. Some of the source code, which was released into the public domain in 1991 still resides on Tim Berners - Lee's Next Computer in the CERN museum and has not been recovered due to its status as a historical artifact. To coincide with the 20th anniversary of the research center giving the web to the world, a project has begun in 2013 at CERN to preserve this original hardware and software associated with the birth of the web.