WorldWideWeb ran on NeXT workstations and let researchers open linked pages, edit them, and follow citations — the prototype for every browser that followed. It introduced URLs, clickable links, and the idea that documents on different servers could form one web.

This is the origin point of the web as a browsable medium, not just a file-transfer network.

It proved hypertextText with links to other documents — clicking links instead of linear reading was the core idea behind the web. could work across the internet and gave the web its first user interface.