Lynx (web browser)

Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. As of January 2019, it is the oldest web browser still in general use and active development, having started in 1992.

Lynx

An older version of the normal English article displayed in Lynx
Original author(s)	Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe, Charles Rezac
Developer(s)	Thomas Dickey
Initial release	1992 (1992)
Repository	https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots
Written in	ISO C
Operating system	Unix-like, DOS, Windows
Available in	English
Type	Text-based web browser
License	GNU GPLv2
Website	lynx.invisible-island.net

History

Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of the University of Kansas. It was first created in 1992 by a team of students and staff at the university (Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac) as a hypertext browser. It was used only to distribute campus information as part of a Campus-Wide Information Server. It was also used for browsing the Gopher space.

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