World Wide Web Clients

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

X-Windows

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.

Connolly, 17 Aug 95

Created 05 Oct 1994 by Mike Sendall

Last updated 29 March 1995