"Browsing the Web in text mode has a long history. Initially, text mode was all there was, with the CERN Line Mode Browser (also called www). The ever-present Lynx made the jump to full-screen text mode, as opposed to line-by-line, in late 1992. Lynx continues to be maintained and extended today. Incidentally, Lynx originally was a browser for Gopher and some in-house university hypertext systems. Emacs/W3 came next, in 1993, and was written in Emacs Lisp.
"In late 1998, W3M came out of Japan, and in 1999 Links was released by Czech programmer Mikulas Patocka. Both these projects have since forked to different degrees. For example, ELinks, an offshoot of Links, now is considered to be a separate project..."
