Ancient Web Browsers

tkWWW

Joseph Wang's excellent Tcl/Tk browser and editor, and the only editor among the early browsers for X.

[Screenshot]

Run tkWWW

Links

tkWWW homepage (via the Internet Archive)

Notes

Wang's editor was notoriously difficult to build, since tkWWW builds depended on minor differences between Tcl/Tk versions.

Partially functioning TkWWW 0.8 on NeXTStep 3.3 with CubXWindow and Tcl6.7/Tk3.2.

Versions

0.1 alpha: 25 July 1992
0.2 alpha: 5 August 1992
0.3 alpha: 30 August 1992
0.4 alpha: 18 October 1992
0.5 alpha: 8 February 1993
0.6 alpha: 19 March 1993
0.7 alpha¹: 1 May 1993
0.8 beta: 19 May 1993
0.9 beta: 5 September 1993
0.10 beta: 31 January 1994
0.11 beta: 26 April 1994
0.12 pre1: June 1994
0.12 beta: 14 July 1994
0.13 beta: 31 March 1995

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¹ Recovered from WC3 History Archive; appears to be a partial source.

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