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.[1] She joined the project in November 1990, while an undergraduate maths student enrolled on a sandwich course at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University).[1][2] Pellow recalled having little experience with programming languages, "... apart from using a bit of Pascal and FORTRAN as part of my degree course."[2]
Nicola Pellow | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Leicester Polytechnic |
| Known for | Line Mode Browser MacWWW |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Information technology |
| Institutions | CERN |
Almost immediately after Berners-Lee completed the WorldWideWeb web browser for the NeXT platform [3] Pellow was tasked with creating a browser using her recently acquired skills in the C programming language.[2] The outcome was that she wrote the first generic Line Mode Browser[4][5][6] that could run on non-NeXT systems.[1][5][7] The WWW team began to improve on her work, creating several experimental versions.[8] Pellow was involved in porting the browser to different types of computers.[9]
She left CERN at the end of August 1991 but returned after graduating in 1992 to work with Robert Cailliau on MacWWW,[10][11] the first web browser for the classic Mac OS.[9][12]
See also edit
- History of the World Wide Web
- Internet pioneers
- Karen Banks – British computer networking pioneer
- Libwww
- Sylvia Wilbur – British computer scientist who worked on the early ARPANET
References edit
- ^ a b c "Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software". CERN. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ a b c Gillies, James; Cailliau, R. (2000). How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web. Oxford University Press. pp. 6. ISBN 0192862073.
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- ^ A screenshot from TBL's first web browser
- ^ A view from Nicola Pellow's line mode browser
- ^ a b "Dream team of web developers to recreate line-mode browser | CERN". home.cern. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ^ Berners-Lee, T.J.; Cailliau, R.; Groff, J.F. (1992). "The World-Wide Web" (PDF). Computer Networks and ISDN Systems. 25 (4–5): 458. doi:10.1016/0169-7552(92)90039-S.
- ^ Lasar, Matthew (11 October 2011). "Before Netscape: the forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s". Ars Technica. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ^ Isaacson, Walter (7 October 2014). The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Simon and Schuster. p. 415. ISBN 9781476708713.
- ^ a b Stewart, Bill (2015). "Web Browser History". Living Internet. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ "MacWWW: the first web browser for the Apple Macintosh platform". www.internet-guide.co.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ^ Screenshot of the first Mac web browser
- ^ Berners-Lee, Tim (3 November 1992). "Macintosh Browser". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
