Information Management: A Proposal, outlining Tim Berners-Lee's vision for a global hypertext system, is written and circulated at CERN. What would later be dubbed the "World Wide Web" is simply called "Mesh."
Tim Berners-Lee acquires the NeXT computer that will be used for development of the proposed global hypertext system
October:
Initial development of the first hypertext browser and server by Tim Berners-Lee. The browser program is called "WorldWideWeb," and the hypertext system is now called "World Wide Web."
The August 6th announcement points to LineMode 0.9, which was developed in June. WorldWideWeb 0.11 would have been the latest version available then too.
He writes:
This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access.
LineMode 0.11a, the earliest version archived here, is released August 15th
WorldWideWeb 0.12, the earliest version archived here, is released August 19th
ViolaWWW 2.0.4, the first version archived here, is released (and is reviewed by Tim Berners-Lee, who calls it "a very neat browser useable by anyone: very intuitive and straightforward")
July:
Erwise 0.1, an X/Motif browser written by a group of Finnish students, is released. (This is its only release.)
TkWWW 0.1 alpha, Joseph Wang's Tcl/Tk browser and editor, is released. (Editing capability won't appear until version 0.6 alpha in March 1993.)
Dan Connolly circulates the earliest HTML Document Type Definition (DTD). (He had told Tim Berners-Lee in November 1991, "you need a DTD.")
September:
VOICE Magazine, the first Web magazine and possibly the first non-academic Web site, publishes its first issue. Tim Berners-Lee notes that the magazine "covers political and moral issues: its first issue is on the topic of abortion rights."
The World Wide Web is mentioned in an article in the Vancouver Sun about connecting to the Internet, which calls it "a Swiss-based global information service" -- apparently the Web's first appearance in a major newspaper
Marc Andreessen "proposes" the IMG tag, which he has already implemented in Mosaic
March:
Lou Montulli's Lynx 2.0 alphais released, the first version to incorporate WWW browsing capability. (It had been a Campus Wide Information Service client for the University of Kansas.) Lynx is the oldest continuously maintained browser.
David Rashty announces his WWW Browser terminal client for VMS systems, based on LineMode 1.4. It is the first browser to support right-to-left text (and Hebrew specifically).