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MidasWWW

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

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MidasWWW
DeveloperTony Johnson1
ReleaseNovember 16, 1992 (1992-11-16)2
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).1 It ran under Unix1 and OpenVMS. The last release was version 2.2. The 16 Nov 1992 sources were made available in June 2015 at GitHub.34

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  1. Tim Berners-Lee. "What were the first WWW browsers?". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  2. Johnson, Tony (16 November 1992). "MidasWWW first release". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
  3. Connolly, Dan (13 Jun 2015). "source to MidasWWW from 1992". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  4. midasWWW at github
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