Line-mode browser

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A line-mode browser is a form of web browser that is operated from a single command line.

An example is the libwww line-mode browser.

The first line-mode browser was written in 1990 by Nicola Pellow, an intern working at CERN. Tim Berners-Lee had already written the first browser, WorldWideWeb, but that program only worked on NeXT computers, which were in limited use. So, Berners-Lee and his team recruited Pellow to write a browser so basic that it could run on any computer in existence at that time. The name "line-mode browser" is derived from that fact that, in order to ensure compatibility with the earliest computer terminals, such as Teletype machines, the program only displayed text one line at a time.

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