Line Mode Browser

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Line Mode Browser is a Desktop web browser, across a variety of operating systems. It's been developed for about 26 years, but there hasn't been anything since 2017.

The Line Mode Browser (also known as LMB, WWWLib, or just www) is the second web browser ever created.

About Line Mode Browser

Browser URL www.w3.org/LineMode/
Development Status Idle
The browser doesn't seem regularly developed, but a new version might still be released at some point
It is a historic project, not actively developed but it seems to still occasionally get updates so that it still runs
Launched 1991
Last Updated 2017
Operating Systems BSD, Linux, Unix-like, macOS, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS Classic, MS-DOS, NeXTSTEP
Also MVS, DECStation/ultrix, Apollo/Domain, IBM RS6000
Device platform Desktop
Rendering Engine Text Mode
Wikipedia Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser
Screenshots Screenshot of Line Mode Browser
General Info Recreation of the Line Mode Browser
Now you can browse the web the way we did before GUIs

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