Ancient Web Browsers

w3browser/FineWWW

Tom Fine's elegant Perl browser.

Run w3browoser/FineWWW

Run this browser in emulation at Infinite Mac
Download NeXTSTEP 3.3 disk image with w3browser/FineWWW (and other browsers) installed [167MB .ZIP]

Notes

Fine's browser is called simply 'w3browser,' but the folks at CERN referred to it as FineWWW, and others called it perlWWW.

There are two versions contained in the combined archive here. One, packaged in a shar bundle, is the original release. The other is an in-progress update that Fine reports he abandoned before it was ever released, dating shortly after the original.

The browser was written to parse only the first HTML spec. A patched (by me) version that ignores unknown tags, with a diff file, is also archived here.

Many thanks to Tom Fine for contributing the files for this browser to the archive.

Versions

Combined 0.1 and later version: 25 November 1992; 22 January 1993
Version 0.1 patched to ignore unknown tags: -