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> 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 peo
by 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!