Editing Lynx (web browser) (section)

==History==
Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of the [[University of Kansas]].{{sfn|Paciello|2000|pp=154-155}}{{sfn|Legan|2002}} It was initially developed in 1992 by a team of students and staff at the university ([[Lou Montulli]], Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac) as a [[hypertext]] browser used solely to distribute campus information as part of a ''Campus-Wide Information System''<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/164399.164402 |title=State Library Online Information System uses a Hypertext Front End |author=Ernest Perez |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |periodical=ACM Siglink |volume=II |issue=2 |page=3 |date=September 1993 |doi=10.1145/164399.164402 |s2cid=18875929 |access-date=December 6, 2023 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207180224/https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/164399.164402 |url-status=live }}</ref> and for browsing the [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher space]].{{sfn|Bolso|2005}} Beta availability was announced to [[Usenet]] on 22 July 1992.{{sfn|Montulli|1992}} In 1993, Montulli added an Internet interface and released a new version (2.0) of the browser.{{sfn|Stewart|2000}}{{sfn|Nelson|2000}}

{{asof|2007|7}}, the support of [[communication protocol]]s in Lynx is implemented using a version of [[libwww]],{{sfn|Kahan|1999}} [[Fork (software development)|forked]] from the library's code base in 1996.{{sfn|Dickey|2007}} The supported protocols include [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher]], [[HTTP]], [[HTTPS]], [[FTP]], [[NNTP]] and [[Wide area information server|WAIS]].{{sfn|Legan|2001}}{{sfn|Seltzer|1995}} Support for NNTP was added to libwww from ongoing Lynx development in 1994.{{sfn|Kahan|2002}} Support for HTTPS was added to Lynx's fork of libwww later, initially as patches due to concerns about encryption.{{sfn|Nestrud|2000}}{{Dead link|date=September 2022}}

Garrett Blythe created DosLynx in April 1994{{sfn|Buttles|1994}} and later joined the Lynx effort as well. Foteos Macrides ported much of Lynx to [[OpenVMS|VMS]] and maintained it for a time. In 1995, Lynx was released under the [[GNU General Public License]], and is now maintained by a group of volunteers led by Thomas Dickey.<ref name="MARTÍNEZ2015">{{cite book|author=JUAN FERRER MARTÍNEZ|title=UF1302 - Creación de páginas web con el lenguaje de marcas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ddE9CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73|date=1 January 2015|publisher=Ediciones Paraninfo, S.A.|isbn=978-84-283-9827-5|pages=73–}}</ref>