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An unbroken line. A good place to start your line-mode browsing is with the first web page ever published. Using the line-mode browser simulator, you can see how this page would have looked over twenty years ago. What’s amazing is that the first web page still works in a modern browser.
- Line Mode
The LineMode Browser is suitable for use on dumb terminals,...
- A Quick User Quide
WWW Line Mode Browser. The World-Wide Web line-mode browser...
- Line Mode
The www is an example application that comes with libwww - the W3C Sample Code Library. It is a character based Web browser developed for use on terminals. It uses the libwww HTTP/1.1 implementation including a full HTTP/1.1 persistent cache, history lists etc. Documentation Overview. Release Notes.
MODERN SITES IN THIS BROWSER. While you have this ancient browser running, take the opportunity to have a look at your own homepage with it! (Use the "go http://www...." command, and don't forget to enter the full URL - old browsers don't automatically add the http:// part!)
Our line-mode browser simulator not only allows you to view the first web pages ever placed online (on these very servers!), but will also render — as accurately as possible — any other website to which it's pointed.
The LineMode Browser is suitable for use on dumb terminals, requiring no control sequences except for carriage return and line feed. It is also of course useable from terminal emulators in workstation windows.
WWW Line Mode Browser. The World-Wide Web line-mode browser allows you to find information by following references and/or by using keywords. References are numbers in [brackets] after particular phrases. Type the number and RETURN for more information on the phrase.
I was invited to this fantastic hack event to recreate one of the very earliest browsers. We're creating a simulation of the experience of using that browser to give people who haven't used it or the old-style terminals a sense of what using the web was like 20 years ago.
