Argo browser

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Argo was a vintage Desktop web browser that ran on Unix-like operating systems. It was developed by Bert Bos. It was developed for about 3 years before being discontinued.

Argo was part of a project to make the Internet accessible to scholars in the Humanities at the University of Groningen. There is presently no publicly available built version, although the source code is still available.

About Argo

Browser made by Bert Bos
Development Status Discontinued
The developers have announced that the browser won't be developed any more
Launched 1994
Discontinued 1997
Operating System Unix-like
It ran on HP-UX
Device platform Desktop
Rendering Engine Custom
It could display images and had support for its own style sheet language
Wikipedia Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(web_browser)
Download
2007-11-23
 https://www.w3.org/People/Bos/Argo/browser/argo/

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