Direct link to the browser: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/

Interesting, for some reason I thought lynx was the first browser. I thought I read that a while ago.

But it makes sense it is a GUI browser since it was developed on a NeXT

It's a javascript-based imitation, much like all of those js-based imitations of various Windows versions.

The original source code isn't really involved, which is a shame, since it is actually available.

IMHO this should have been (something along the lines of) GNUstep + TimBL's original code (mirror: https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb) + Emscripten + getting Emscripten to work with ObjC. Now, that would have been cool.

This is the most commented HN posting on this from that time (2019):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249373

All the links should point to the 1989 internet instead of "Not Found"

:-)

Fun fact: Erwise[0] was the first _graphical_ browser developed by a group of students in Helsinki University of Technology with Sir Berners Lee. Sadly there was no funding in Finland available at the time and they had to abandon the project and most of the group ended up working at Tekla, contributing to a bunch of cool AEC CAD technology (Tekla is now a Trimble subsidiary).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwise