Nicola Pellow is an English mathematician and information scientist who was one of the nineteen members of the ''WWW Project'' at

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working with

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. She joined the project in November 1990, while an undergraduate maths student enrolled on a

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at Leicester Polytechnic (now

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). Pellow recalled having little experience with programming languages, "... apart from using a bit of

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and FORTRAN as part of my degree course." Almost immediately after Berners-Lee completed the

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for the

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platform Pellow was tasked with creating a browser using her recently acquired skills in the C programming language. The outcome was that she wrote the first generic Line Mode Browser that could run on non-NeXT systems. The WWW team began to improve on her work, creating several experimental versions. Pellow was involved in porting the browser to different types of computers. She left CERN at the end of August 1991 but returned after graduating in 1992 to work with Robert Cailliau on

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, the first web browser for the

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Archive of "People involved in the WorldWideWeb project"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pellow, Nicola Alumni of De Montfort University Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Women Internet pioneers British women computer scientists People associated with CERN

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