February 26, 1991 was the day the first web browser was used on the World Wide Web. That’s sixteen years ago today for those who are counting.

Invented by Tim Berners-Lee to take advantage of another of his inventions (the Web itself), the first browser was unimaginatively named, Worldwideweb. The browser, soon renamed Nexus, was the first to use yet another of Berners-Lee’s inventions, the hypertext transfer protocol (http).

(source: Wired News)