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<title>About Lynx – Who, What, and When – Where it is
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now</title>
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<link rev="made" href="mailto:lynx-dev@nongnu.org">
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"Give a little history of Lynx, by whom and where it was originally developed, and add some of its current contact information.">
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<p>[ <a href="lynx-dev.html">About Lynx-Dev</a> | <a href=
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"http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev/">Lynx-Dev
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Archives</a> ]</p>
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<h2>About Lynx</h2>
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<p><strong>Lynx</strong> is a fully-featured <em>World Wide
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Web</em> (<em>WWW</em>) browser for users on Unix, VMS, and other
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platforms running cursor-addressable, character-cell terminals or
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emulators. That includes vt100 terminals, other character-cell
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displays, and vt100 emulators such as Kermit or Procomm running
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on PCs or Macs.</p>
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<p>For information on how to use <strong>Lynx</strong> see the
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<a href="Lynx_users_guide.html">Lynx User's Guide</a>, or the
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<a href="lynx_help_main.html">Lynx help files</a>.</p>
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<h2>Credits and Copyright</h2>
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<p><strong>Lynx</strong> was a product of the Distributed
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Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of <a href=
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"http://web.archive.org/web/19971210163627/http://www.cc.ukans.edu/">
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The University of Kansas</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Lynx</strong> was originally developed by <a href=
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"http://web.archive.org/web/20040309105337/http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Lou.Montulli.html">
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Lou Montulli</a>, <a href=
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"http://condor.cc.ku.edu/~grobe/">Michael Grobe</a>, and <a href=
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"http://web.archive.org/web/20040412210202/http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Charles.Rezac.html">
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Charles Rezac</a>. <a href=
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"http://web.archive.org/web/20040412210651/http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Garrett/Garrett_Arch_Blythe.html">
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Garrett Blythe</a> created <a href=
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"http://web.archive.org/web/20040812204015/http://www.cc.ukans.edu/about_doslynx/doslynx.html">
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DosLynx</a> and later joined the <strong>Lynx</strong> effort as
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well. Following the departures of Lou and Garrett for positions
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at Netscape in the summer of 1994, <em>Craig Lavender</em>
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provided support services for <strong>Lynx</strong>, and
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<em>Ravikumar Kolli</em> for DosLynx.</p>
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<p><strong>Lynx</strong> is maintained and supported by members
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of the Internet community coordinated via the <a href=
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"#lynx-dev_list"><em>lynx-dev mailing list</em></a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Lynx</strong> is derived from material copyrighted by
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the University of Kansas. However most of the release (and
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corresponding copyright) is the work of developers on the
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<a href="#lynx-dev_list"><em>lynx-dev mailing list</em></a>. It
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is distributed <a href="COPYHEADER">without restrictions on usage
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or redistribution</a> under the <a href="COPYING">GNU General
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Public License (Version 2)</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Lynx</strong> was built over an early version of the
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Common Code Library developed by the CERN WWW Project. That code
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is copyrighted by CERN. <strong>Lynx</strong> contains other
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sections of code that are copyrighted by other institutions or
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individuals. The <strong>Lynx</strong> copyright does not
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override or invalidate those copyrights.</p>
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<p>Thanks to <a name="note13" href=
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"http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/" id="note13">Tim
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Berners-Lee</a> and the other <a name="note14" href=
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"http://www.w3.org/People.html" id="note14">CERN World Wide Web
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wizards</a> for the WWW client library code and all of their
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other work on the WWW project, NCSA and the <a href=
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"http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html">
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Mosaic</a> developers, and to everyone out in netland who has
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contributed to <strong>Lynx</strong>'s development either
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directly (through comments or bug reports) or indirectly (through
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inspiration and development of other systems).</p>
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<p>Also, special thanks go to <em>Foteos Macrides</em> who ported
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much of <strong>Lynx</strong> to VMS and did much of its
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development following Lou Montulli's and Garrett Blythe's
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departures from the University of Kansas, and to <em>Earl
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Fogel</em> of the University of Saskatchewan. Earl implemented
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the hypertext engine HYPERREZ in the Unix environment. HYPERREZ
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was developed by Niel Larson of Think.com and served as the model
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for the early versions of <strong>Lynx</strong> which did not use
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the WWW libraries and had their own hypertext format.</p>
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<h2><a name="availability" id="availability">Availability</a></h2>
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<p>Information on obtaining the most current version of
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<strong>Lynx</strong> is available via the <a href=
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"https://lynx.invisible-island.net">Lynx homepage</a>.</p>
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<h2><a name="lynx-dev_list" id="lynx-dev_list">Mailing List</a></h2>
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<p>We have a mailing list for <strong>Lynx</strong> development
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discussion. If you are interested in joining the list, follow
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this <a href="lynx-dev.html">link</a>. There also are links to
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<a href=
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"http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev/">archives</a> in
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html format for this mailing list.</p>
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