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onedognight on Oct 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Emacs 24.4 released

> Emacs has a web browser?

At one point there were only two web browsers in the world, one was Mosaic (Mozilla is short for Mosaic Killer) and one was W3 (the emacs web browser).

hackuser on Oct 20, 2014 | [–]

I don't think Mosaic was the original browser and I believe others predated Emacs, such as Lynx. Here's Wikipedia's version of events, for what it's worth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser

gsnedders on Oct 20, 2014 | [–]

Um, what about WorldWideWeb, the original NeXTSTEP browser/editor (by TimBL) which predates both of them?

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