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Letter: Web first

Published 10 April 2013

From Robert Cailliau

You reported the winners of the first Queen Elizabeth prize for engineering: Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf and Louis Pouzin for developing key tools to transmit data on the internet, Tim Berners-Lee for creating the web itself, and Marc Andreessen for the first browser, NCSA Mosaic (23 March, p 5). However, the first browser was WWW, which I worked on with Berners-Lee at CERN.

Prévessin-Moëns, France

Issue no. 2912 published 13 April 2013

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