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The platform was quite successful in financial and scientific circles where ease and speed of development was key. That's what led to Tim Berners-Lee having suc
by qubex 11y ago
The platform was quite successful in financial and scientific circles where ease and speed of development was key. That's what led to Tim Berners-Lee having such a machine on his desk whilst at CERN and hence developing the HTTP protocol, the HTML language, and basically the first web server and browser with it.
- TickleSteve 11y agoyeah... I know... I've got a cube and 2 NeXTStations... but while they were popular in engineering circles, they deserved more mass-market appeal than that. Unfortunately, they were also pricey in their day...
- qubex 11y agoAt those prices they never stood a chance of becoming anything more than a niche item — and this was very clear to those who formulated the pricing strategy. They did expect a higher success rate in Universities and higher education generally, and the consequent students-choosing-to-work-on-the-platform-they-learnt-on but new graduates had almost no say in such choices “back then” and there was never much take up in the educational sector to begin with.
- julian_1 11y agoDo you know if that work was done in (more-portable) C or in Objective-C?
- mpweiher 11y agoThe work was done in Objective-C and took around 5KLOC (including editing). I could do in a couple of months what would take more like a year on other platforms [1]. You can download the source code. TBL got permission from his manager to do WWW as a side project. For NCSA Mosaic, it took a team of 5 a year to produce 100KLOC of C. In other words, it would not have been possible as a side project, and thus we would not have the WWW. [1] http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html