Nicola Pellow facts for kids
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Nicola Pellow
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| Alma mater | Leicester Polytechnic |
| Known for | Line Mode Browser MacWWW |
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| Fields | Information technology |
| Institutions | CERN |
Nicola Pellow is a smart English mathematician and computer expert. She was a key member of the WWW Project team at CERN. This project worked with Tim Berners-Lee, who is known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Nicola joined the team in November 1990. At the time, she was studying maths at Leicester Polytechnic. This was part of a special "sandwich course" that combined studying with work experience. Nicola didn't have much computer programming experience then. She had only used a little bit of Pascal and FORTRAN for her degree.
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Nicola Pellow's Work on Web Browsers
Creating the First Simple Web Browser
Soon after Tim Berners-Lee made the first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, Nicola got a big task. She needed to create a new browser using a programming language called C. This was a language she had just learned.
Her work led to the very first Line Mode Browser. This was a special browser that could run on many different types of computers. It was important because Tim Berners-Lee's first browser only worked on NeXT computers. The Line Mode Browser made the web available to more people.
Improving and Adapting Web Browsers
The WWW team then started to make Nicola's browser even better. They created several test versions. Nicola helped to "port" the browser. This means she helped make it work on different kinds of computer systems.
She left CERN in August 1991. But she came back in 1992 after finishing her 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.
See also
In Spanish: Nicola Pellow para niños
