Lynx web browser

A WWW browser from the [University of Kansas]? for use on cursor-addressable, character cell terminals or terminals emulators under Unix or VMS. Lynx is a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of The University of Kansas. Lynx was originally developed by Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac. Garrett Blythe created DosLynx? and later joined the Lynx effort as well. Foteos Macrides ported much of Lynx to VMS and is now maintaining it.

Lynx is the most popular console browser on the Linux operating system.

Its main shortcoming is its lack of support for HTML tables, although it does support some advanced HTML and HTTP functions, such as SSL. It's largest competitor is the [Links web browser]?, named as an obvious take on Lynx. Links provides HTML table support.

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