Lynx (web browser)
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| Original author(s) | Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe, Charles Rezac |
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| Developer(s) | Thomas Dickey |
| Initial release | 1992 |
| Stable release | 2.8.8(9 March 2014) |
| Preview release | 2.8.9dev.11(15 November 2016) |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | ISO C |
| Operating system | Unix-like, DOS, Microsoft Windows and others |
| Engine | fork of libwww |
| Available in | English |
| Type | web browser |
| License | GNU GPLv2 |
| Website | lynx |
Lynx is a highly configurable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. As of 2017[update], it is the oldest web browser currently in general use and development, having started in 1992.
Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of the University of Kansas, and was initially developed in 1992 by a team of students at the university (Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac) as a hypertext browser used solely to distribute campus information as part of a Campus-Wide Information Server and for browsing the . Beta availability was announced to Usenet on 22 July 1992. In 1993, Montulli added an Internet interface and released a new version (2.0) of the browser.
As of July 2007[update] the support of in Lynx is implemented using a version of libwww,forked from the library's code base in 1996. The supported protocols include , HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NNTP and WAIS. Support for NNTP was added to libwww from ongoing Lynx development in 1994. Support for HTTPS was added to Lynx's fork of libwww later, initially as patches due to concerns about encryption.
Garrett Blythe created DosLynx in April 1994 and later joined the Lynx effort as well. Foteos Macrides ported much of Lynx to VMS and maintained it for a time. In 1995, Lynx was released under the GNU General Public License, and is now maintained by a group of volunteers led by Thomas Dickey.
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