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❮\u00a0Installed Hypertext Systems<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Web Browsers are the window to the World Wide Web. Even before graphical windows existed there was a variety of text browsers available for the user to access the Web.<\/p>\n

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Arachne\"ARACHNE<\/a><\/h4>\n

On DOS systems, Arachne was an internet suite. It contained a graphical web browser, an email client and a dialer. The user could also browse his local drives. Arachne supported only a subset of stylesheets and html.<\/p>\n

Lynx\"Lynx<\/a><\/h4>\n

Lynx<\/a> is the oldest browser that’s still in general use and active development; It’s first release was in 1992. Being a text browser it can not display any images or CSS. Despite its age it is still usable for many purposes. You can even edit wikipedia pages with it.<\/p>\n

Minnesota Internet Users Essential Tool (MINUET)\"Minnesota<\/a><\/h4>\n

MINUET<\/a> is an integrated internet package for DOS Operating Systems on IBM-compatible computers. It needs at least 384 KiB of RAM and can also run on an original 4.77 MHz IBM PC. It has a GUI interface and is capable of multitasking.<\/p>\n

NCSA Mosaic\"Mosaic<\/a><\/h4>\n

The Mosaic Browser<\/a> is the first browser with modern inline image support. It understands many protocols (Archie, FTP, gopher, HTTP, NNTP, telnet, WAIS) and is the predecessor of the famous Netscape Navigator<\/a> and the Internet Explorer<\/a>. Mosaic greatly influenced the public use of the internet; it led to the internet boom of the 1990s.<\/p>\n

w3m\"w3m<\/a><\/h4>\n

The text-based browser w3m<\/a> is capable of viewing images on suitable terminals. It tries to present the web page in its most natural form and supports tables, ssl, frames and colors.<\/p>\n