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The original Web browser was named WorldWideWeb; that's where the name for the web (and our WWW prefix) come from.
by tdeck 6y ago
The original Web browser was named WorldWideWeb; that's where the name for the web (and our WWW prefix) come from.
- Arathorn 6y agoYes, the first web browser was WorldWideWeb. one of the first mail clients was /bin/mail. the first IRC client was irc. the first jabber server was jabberd. And the first Matrix client was called Matrix Console. Much like all of the above, it sucked - it was a first generation thing I wrote in Angular on the Caltrain the day before we launched Matrix at TC Disrupt 2014. So I'd say the analogy is pretty good. Riot (originally Vector) is a second gen client designed to make Matrix mass market - just like Netscape did for the Web. You can get away with the first crappy experiment being named after the protocol, but beyond that point it's just gauche.