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Clients World Wide Web Clients

NOTE Note: This information has not been updated since 29 March 1995.

These programs allow you to access the World Wide Web from your own computer. See also:

Email based browsers

Agora
Based on the line-mode browser. If you cannot have full access to the Internet. (beta)

Terminal based browsers

W3C Line Mode Browser
This program gives World Wide Web readership to anyone with a dumb terminal. A general purpose information retrieval tool.
"Lynx" full screen browser
This is a hypertext browser for vt100s using full screen, arrow keys, highlighting, etc.
Tom Fine's perlWWW
A tty-based browser written in perl.
For VMS
Dudu Rashty's full screen client based on VMS's SMG screen management routines.
Emacs w3-mode
World Wide Web browse mode for emacs. Uses multiple fonts when used with Lemacs or Epoch. See doc .

Microsoft Windows

Cello
Browser from Cornell LII
Mosaic for Windows
From NCSA.
WinWeb
EINet's full-feature World-Wide Web client
GWHIS for MS Windows
Commercialized version of NCSA Mosaic from Quadralay Inc.
Netscape
Commercial browser
Galahad for BIX
An off-line access tool for the on-line Byte Information eXchange, that also includes a Web browser with forms capability.
Quarterdeck Mosaic
and more on Quarterdeck
SlipKnot
SlipKnot, a graphical World Wide Web browser specifically designed for Microsoft Windows users who have UNIX shell accounts with their service providers, has been released as shareware by MicroMind, Inc.

Macintosh

Mosaic for Macintosh
From NCSA. Full featured.
Samba
From CERN. Basic.
MacWeb
EINet's full-feature World-Wide Web client
Netscape
Commercial browser

X-Windows

Grail
An experimental web client in python that demonstrates mobile code capabilities.
NCSA Mosaic for X
Browser using X11/Motif.
GWHIS Viewer for X
Commercialized version of NCSA Mosaic from Quadralay Inc.
tkWWW Browser/Editor for X11
Browser/Editor for X11. (Beta)
MidasWWW Browser
From Tony Johnson. (Beta, works well.)
Chimera
Browser using Athena (doesn't require Motif)
"ViolaWWW" Browser for X11
Browser for X11. (Beta, unsupported)
Arena
HTML3 browser for X11. (prerelease, supported)
Netscape
Commercial browser

NeXTStep

Nexus Browser-Editor
A browser/editor for NeXTStep. Allows wysiwyg hypertext editing. Requires NeXTStep 3.0. Buggy.
OmniWeb
Working browser from Omni. Freely available. Now commercially supported by Lighthouse Design.
Netsurfer
From Netsurfer Inc.
Spiderwoman
From Sen:te

VM

Albert
A full-screen World Wide Web client for VM systems by David Nessl, University of Florida. Available from ftp://www.ufl.edu/pub/vm/www. (VM is an IBM mainframe operating system).

Unreleased or Unsupported

Browser on CERNVM
A full-screen browser for VM. Nonexistant. Use the line mode www. Might arrive suddenly one day.
Dave Ragget's Browser
Unreleased. For X11, (later PC?)
Erwise
X-windows early browser. Unsupported, now of historical.
NJIT's Browser

Assumes a character-grid terminal with cursor addressing, and provides a full-screen interface to the web.


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