Nicola Pellow facts for kids

Nicola Pellow is a talented English mathematician and computer scientist. She was one of the first people to work on the World Wide Web project at CERN. This project was led by Tim Berners-Lee, who is famous for inventing the web. Nicola joined the team in November 1990. At the time, she was a university student studying maths.

Nicola was on a special "sandwich course" at Leicester Polytechnic. This means she spent time studying and also working in a real job. She remembered not having much experience with computer programming. She had only used a little bit of Pascal and FORTRAN for her degree.

Building the First Web Browsers

Soon after Tim Berners-Lee finished the first WorldWideWeb web browser, Nicola got an important job. A web browser is a program that lets you view websites. Tim's first browser worked only on special NeXT computers. Nicola was asked to create a new browser using her new skills in the C programming language.

The Line Mode Browser

Nicola successfully created the very first Line Mode Browser. This browser was special because it could run on many different types of computers. It was not limited to just NeXT systems. The Line Mode Browser showed text line by line, without fancy graphics.

The team at CERN worked hard to make Nicola's browser even better. They made several test versions. Nicola helped adapt the browser so it could work on many different computer systems. This was a very important step for the web to become popular everywhere.

Working on MacWWW

Nicola left CERN in August 1991. But she came back in 1992 after finishing her university degree. This time, she worked with Robert Cailliau. Together, they created MacWWW. This was the very first web browser made for Apple's classic Mac OS computers. MacWWW helped more people access the growing World Wide Web.

See also

In Spanish: Nicola Pellow para niños

• History of the World Wide Web
• Internet pioneers
• Karen Banks
• Libwww
• Sylvia Wilbur