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- Engine: Text Mode
- OS: Linux, Unix-like
- Status: Discontinued
This page was last updated at: Mar 19, 2026
Agora was a vintage Desktop web browser that ran on Unix-like operating systems. It was developed for about a year before being discontinued.
Agora was a proof of concept browser released in the 1990s. It had an interesting approach; instead of "browsing" the internet, you would install the Agora Browser on a server, use it to request a page, it would request the page, and then email the text of that page to you. A slow process indeed!
The result would be a Text Mode version of the page you requested, similar to other Text Mode browsers like Lynx.
| Development Status |
Discontinued The developers have announced that the browser won't be developed any more
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|---|---|
| Launched | 1996 |
| Discontinued | 1997 |
| Operating System |
Unix-like
It ran on DEC Alpha servers.
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| Device platform | Desktop |
| Rendering Engine | Text Mode |
| Official Site | Archive link of the Agora homepage |
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These web browsers have something in common with Agora, you could test them out and compare them.