Lynx (web browser)
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Original author(s) | Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe, Charles Rezac |
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Developer(s) | Thomas Dickey [Wikidata] |
Initial release | 1992; 32 years ago (1992) |
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Written in | ISO C |
Operating system | Unix-like,[1] DOS, Windows[2] |
Available in | English |
Type | Text-based web browser |
License | GNU GPLv2 |
Website | lynx |
Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals.[3][4] As of January 2019[update], it is the oldest web browser still in general use and active development,[5] having started in 1992.
Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of the University of Kansas.[6][7] 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.