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Ancient Web Browsers

tkWWW

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Joseph Wang's excellent Tcl/Tk browser and editor, and the only editor among the early browsers for X.
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tkWWW 0.12 on NeXTStep 3.3 with co-Xist and Tcl7.4/Tk4.0.

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Notes

Here is Joe Wang, writing sometime before 1995, prognosticating about the revolutionary potential of the Web:

About 400 years ago, the invention of movable type triggered a social revolution. Before, literacy had been the property of a privileged elites. Afterwards, it became the property of the humble masses, and the world changed dramatically.

I believe that hypertext and networked computers will produce as much of a social revolution as the invention of movable type. With these tools, you can put an entire University complete with the Library of Congress into anybody's living room.

What will be the social consequences of this revolution? I don't know what they will be, but I am sure that they will profound, and I suspect that it will transform the world for the better.

My work on the WWW project is my small contribution to this revolution.

Wang's editor could be difficult to build, since tkWWW builds depended on minor differences between Tcl/Tk versions. (See Nishi's patches for modern Tcl/Tk, above.)
Partially functioning TkWWW 0.8 on NeXTStep 3.3 with CubXWindow and Tcl6.7/Tk3.2.
Partially functioning TkWWW 0.8 on NeXTStep 3.3 with CubXWindow and Tcl6.7/Tk3.2.

Versions

0.1 alpha
25 July 1992
0.2 alpha
5 August 1992
0.3 alpha
30 August 1992
0.4 alpha
18 October 1992
0.5 alpha
8 February 1993
0.6 alpha
19 March 1993
0.7 alpha1
1 May 1993
0.8 beta
19 May 1993
0.9 beta
5 September 1993
0.10 beta
31 January 1994
0.11 beta
26 April 1994
0.12 pre1
June 1994
0.12 beta
14 July 1994
0.13 pre2
31 March 1995
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1 Recovered from WC3 History Archive; appears to be a partial source.

Binaries