- From: Tweedy Flanigan <tweedy@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:15:29 +0200
- To: public-webhistory@w3.org
Dear all Happy to report that Tom Fine has generously contributed the source code for his Perl terminal browser (called w3browser and referred to by CERN as FineWWW and by some others as perlWWW) to my archive of the earliest web browsers. This is great news, since his browser was one of the ones that had otherwise disappeared from the web, and which I feared might be lost forever. The source and a screenshot of the browser in action are here for anyone interested: http://9p.sdf.org/who/tweedy/ancient_browsers/index.html#w3browser Tom reports that he abandoned development of the browser after Lynx with WWW was released, which makes sense but still strikes me as a shame. I find the way w3browser renders HTML in the terminal to be really elegant, and I like that it’s written in an interpreted language. It seems to need Perl 4 to run — I can confirm that it works on an emulated NeXT machine with Perl 4.0.1.8. Best wishes, Tweedy P. S. As always, please let me know if you know of a source for any of the missing browsers: - James Whitescarver’s NJIT W3 curses browser [http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Curses/Release_00.html] - Dan Connolly's Tcl browser [http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1991.messages/3.html] - David Rashty's VMS browser [http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1993q3.messages/192.html] - Various missing early versions of other browsers listed at the archive [http://9p.sdf.org/who/tweedy/ancient_browsers/]
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