World Wide Web Clients

NOTE Note: This information has not been updated since 29 March 1995.

These programs allow you to access the World Wide Web from your own computer. See also:

Email based browsers

Agora: Based on the line-mode browser. If you cannot have full access to the Internet. (beta)

W3C Line Mode Browser: This program gives World Wide Web readership to anyone with a dumb terminal. A general purpose information retrieval tool.
"Lynx" full screen browser: This is a hypertext browser for vt100s using full screen, arrow keys, highlighting, etc.
Tom Fine's perlWWW: A tty-based browser written in perl.
For VMS: Dudu Rashty's full screen client based on VMS's SMG screen management routines.
Emacs w3-mode: World Wide Web browse mode for emacs. Uses multiple fonts when used with Lemacs or Epoch. See doc .

Cello: Browser from Cornell LII
Mosaic for Windows: From NCSA.
WinWeb: EINet's full-feature World-Wide Web client
GWHIS for MS Windows: Commercialized version of NCSA Mosaic from Quadralay Inc.
Netscape: Commercial browser
Galahad for BIX: An off-line access tool for the on-line Byte Information eXchange, that also includes a Web browser with forms capability.
Quarterdeck Mosaic: and more on Quarterdeck
SlipKnot: SlipKnot, a graphical World Wide Web browser specifically designed for Microsoft Windows users who have UNIX shell accounts with their service providers, has been released as shareware by MicroMind, Inc.

Grail: An experimental web client in python that demonstrates mobile code capabilities.
NCSA Mosaic for X: Browser using X11/Motif.
GWHIS Viewer for X: Commercialized version of NCSA Mosaic from Quadralay Inc.
tkWWW Browser/Editor for X11: Browser/Editor for X11. (Beta)
MidasWWW Browser: From Tony Johnson. (Beta, works well.)
Chimera: Browser using Athena (doesn't require Motif)
"ViolaWWW" Browser for X11: Browser for X11. (Beta, unsupported)
Arena: HTML3 browser for X11. (prerelease, supported)
Netscape: Commercial browser

Nexus Browser-Editor: A browser/editor for NeXTStep. Allows wysiwyg hypertext editing. Requires NeXTStep 3.0. Buggy.
OmniWeb: Working browser from Omni. Freely available. Now commercially supported by Lighthouse Design.
Netsurfer: From Netsurfer Inc.
Spiderwoman: From Sen:te

Albert: A full-screen World Wide Web client for VM systems by David Nessl, University of Florida. Available from ftp://www.ufl.edu/pub/vm/www. (VM is an IBM mainframe operating system).

Browser on CERNVM: A full-screen browser for VM. Nonexistant. Use the line mode www. Might arrive suddenly one day.
Dave Ragget's Browser: Unreleased. For X11, (later PC?)
Erwise: X-windows early browser. Unsupported, now of historical.
NJIT's Browser

Assumes a character-grid terminal with cursor addressing, and provides a full-screen interface to the web.

Connolly, 17 Aug 95

Created 05 Oct 1994 by Mike Sendall

Last updated 29 March 1995