Ancient Web Browsers

Lynx

Lynx now has the distinction of being the oldest continuously-maintained web browser.

Lynx 2.0.11.

Run Lynx

• Run this browser in emulation at Infinite Mac
• Download NeXTSTEP 3.3 disk image with Lynx (and other browsers) installed [167MB .ZIP]
• Get modern Lynx

Links

• A copy of the Historical Lynx homepage (for version 2.5) and user's guide (for version 2.3; via the Internet Archive)
• The present-day Lynx homepage
• Michael Grobe's "An Early History of Lynx" (1997)

Versions

2.0 alpha ¹

11 March 1993

2.0 beta R7

11 April 1993

2.0.8

25 April 1993

2.0.10

12 July 1993

2.0.11

25 August 1993

2.1.1

December 1993

2.2

February 1994

2.3

May 1994

¹ Change logs indicate that the ability to parse HTML documents was added to Lynx on 9 March 1993.