TkWWW browser

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

tkWWW is an early, now discontinued web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor written by Joseph Wang at MIT as part of Project Athena and the Globewide Network Academy project The browser was based on the Tcl language and the Tk (toolkit) extension but did not achieve broad user-acceptance or market share, although it was included in many Linux distributions by default.

About TkWWW

Development Status Discontinued
The developers have announced that the browser won't be developed any more
Launched 1992
Discontinued 1995
Operating System Unix-like
Device platform Desktop
Rendering Engine Custom
Wikipedia Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TkWWW

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