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Wouldn't mind a bit more explicaton of exactly what I'm looking at. For example: > References to other information are represented like this[a hyperlink]. Do

Wouldn't mind a bit more explicaton of exactly what I'm looking at. For example: > References to other information are represented like *this*[a hyperlink]. Double-click on it to jump to related information. I remember accessing the web at a pretty early stage by telnet to info.cern.ch which presented a text client pretty much like an old version of lynx, but double clicking on that would get you nowhere. You had to press Enter, iirc. Does the featured link emulate some internal client at Cern?

marbu 4y ago
> Does the featured link emulate some internal client at Cern? It's a javascript emulation of first browser/editor running on a NeXT machine. Only very few people actually used this setup. For more context, see https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/ https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/ > I remember accessing the web at a pretty early stage by telnet to info.cern.ch which presented a text client pretty much like an old version of lynx, but double clicking on that would get you nowhere. You had to press Enter, iirc. I guess that was the line mode browser? CERN did a javascript rebuild of it as well in 2013 https://line-mode.cern.ch/ https://line-mode.cern.ch/, but the emulator is no longer running. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser
- ttctciyf 4y ago
  > I guess that was the line mode browser? Seems you must be right and I did not "rc" since you had to supply the number of the link you wanted, rather than hit enter on it, lynx style :) Thanks for the reminder!
simmons 4y ago
> I remember accessing the web at a pretty early stage by telnet to info.cern.ch which presented a text client pretty much like an old version of lynx, but double clicking on that would get you nowhere. You had to press Enter, iirc. I remember using that text client as well. If I recall correctly, it was just called "www" and presented links as footnotes that you could select by number. I remember thinking it was quite clumsy and would never be as elegant and clean as Gopher. ;) I always assumed that was the first web browser, but it makes sense that this NeXT-ish/GUI-ish client was the first, given the circumstances of its development.

Wouldn't mind a bit more explicaton of exactly what I'm looking at. For example: > References to other information are represented like *this*[a hyperlink]. Do

marbu 4y ago

> Does the featured link emulate some internal client at Cern? It's a javascript emulation of first browser/editor running on a NeXT machine. Only very few people actually used this setup. For more context, see https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/ https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/ > I remember accessing the web at a pretty early stage by telnet to info.cern.ch which presented a text client pretty much like an old version of lynx, but double clicking on that would get you nowhere. You had to press Enter, iirc. I guess that was the line mode browser? CERN did a javascript rebuild of it as well in 2013 https://line-mode.cern.ch/ https://line-mode.cern.ch/, but the emulator is no longer running. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser

ttctciyf 4y ago
> I guess that was the line mode browser? Seems you must be right and I did not "rc" since you had to supply the number of the link you wanted, rather than hit enter on it, lynx style :) Thanks for the reminder!

simmons 4y ago

> I remember accessing the web at a pretty early stage by telnet to info.cern.ch which presented a text client pretty much like an old version of lynx, but double clicking on that would get you nowhere. You had to press Enter, iirc. I remember using that text client as well. If I recall correctly, it was just called "www" and presented links as footnotes that you could select by number. I remember thinking it was quite clumsy and would never be as elegant and clean as Gopher. ;) I always assumed that was the first web browser, but it makes sense that this NeXT-ish/GUI-ish client was the first, given the circumstances of its development.