“Browsing the Web in text mode has a long history. Initially,
text mode was all there was, with the CERN Line Mode Browser (also
called www). The ever-present Lynx made the jump to full-screen
text mode, as opposed to line-by-line, in late 1992. Lynx continues
to be maintained and extended today. Incidentally, Lynx originally
was a browser for Gopher and some in-house university hypertext
systems. Emacs/W3 came next, in 1993, and was written in Emacs
Lisp.“In late 1998, W3M came out of Japan, and in 1999 Links was
released by Czech programmer Mikulas Patocka. Both these projects
have since forked to different degrees. For example, ELinks, an
offshoot of Links, now is considered to be a separate
project…”
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