Software:MidasWWW

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MidasWWW
Initial releaseNovember 16, 1992; 31 years ago (1992-11-16)[1]
Operating systemUNIX/VMS
Available inEN
TypeWeb browser
LicenseFreeware with source code
Websitehttp://hpux.cs.utah.edu:80/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/midaswww-2.1/ (defunct, archived 1997 at the Internet Archive)

MidasWWW is one of the earliest (now discontinued) web browsers, developed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).[2] It ran under Unix[2] and OpenVMS. The last release was version 2.2. The 16 Nov 1992 sources were made available in June 2015 at GitHub.[3][4]

References

  1. Johnson, Tony (16 November 1992). "MidasWWW first release". World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MidasWWW/Announce1.html. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named faq
  3. Connolly, Dan (13 Jun 2015). "source to MidasWWW from 1992". World Wide Web Consortium. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webhistory/2015Jun/0000.html. 
  4. midasWWW at github

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