About Lynx

Lynx is a World-Wide Web browser for users on both UNIX and VMS platforms who are connected to those systems via cursor-addressable, character-cell terminals or emulators (including VT100 terminals and desktop-based software packages emulating VT100 terminals, such as Kermit, Procomm, etc.). Lynx was orginally conceived and developed by Academic Computing Services at the University of Kansas.

The most recent release of Lynx is release 2.8.3.

Updates on Lynx development and information concerning Lynx can now be found at http://lynx.browser.org/.

Credits

Lynx is a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of The University of Kansas. Lynx was originally developed by Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe, and Charles Rezac. Garrett Blythe created DosLynx and later joined the Lynx effort as well. Currently it is being maintained by members of the Internet community.

Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee and the other CERN World Wide Web wizards for the WWW client library code and all of their other work on the WWW project. Thanks to NCSA and the Mosaic developers, and to everyone out in netland who has contributed to Lynx's development either directly (through comments or bug reports) or indirectly (through inspiration and development of other systems). Also a special thanks to Foteos Macrides who ported much of Lynx to VMS, and to Earl Fogel of the University of Saskatchewan. Earl developed a UN*X/VMS version of Peter Scott's HYTELNET using the hypertext engine HYPERREZ. HYPERREZ was developed by Neil Larson of MaxThink and served as the infrastructure for the early versions of Lynx which did not use the WWW libraries and had their own hypertext format.

For a more complete history of the early devlopment of Lynx see:

http://www.cc.ukans.edu/~grobe/early-lynx.html

Copyright

Lynx is copyrighted by the University of Kansas and is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Any questions concerning licensing or usage should be directed to Michael Grobe <grobe@ukans.edu>.

Lynx was built over an early version of the Common Code Library developed by the CERN WWW Project. That code is copyrighted by CERN. Lynx contains other sections of code that are copyrighted by other institutions or individuals. The Lynx copyright does not override or invalidate those copyrights.

Michael Grobe grobe@ku.edu