- Erwise
Erwise was a popular
web browser in the early days of theWorld Wide Web . At the time of its release inApril 1992 , one month prior toViolaWWW , it was the world's firstweb browser with agraphical user interface for non-NeXT computers. The browser was written forUnix computers running X and used the W3 common access library. [ [http://cerncourier.com/articles/cnl/3/9/4/1 Cern Courier - Computing at CERN in the 1990s] ] Erwise was a combined master's project of four Finnish students at theHelsinki University of Technology ; Kim Nyberg, Teemu Rantanen, Kati Suominen and Kari Sydänmaanlakka. [ [http://www.w3.org/People.html#9 World Wide Web Consortium - World Wide Web people] ] The group decided to create a web browser at the suggestion ofRobert Cailliau , who was visiting the university. [ [http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_browse.htm Living Internet - Web Brower History] ] They were supervised byAri Lemmke .The development of Erwise froze after the students graduated and went on to other projects.
Tim Berners-Lee , the creator of theWorld Wide Web , travelled to Finland to encourage the group to continue with the project. However, none of the project members could afford to continue with the project without proper funding. Berners-Lee couldn't continue their work either, as all the code was written in Finnish.The name "Erwise" originates from "otherwise" and the name of the project group, "OHT". [ [http://www2.hs.fi/klik/arkisto/2000helmikuu/20000210klik99erwise.html Helsingin Sanomat: February 10, 2000 fi icon] ]
ources
*Berners-Lee, Tim: "Weaving the Web" ISBN 0-694-52125-6.
References
External links
* [ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/networking/services/www/erwisE/ The source code] at
FUNET FTP archives
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