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{{short description|Command-line web browser}}
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{{Infobox web browser▼
| name = Line Mode Browser
| logo = LineModeBrowser.gif
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| developer = [[World Wide Web Consortium|W3C]] / [[CERN]]
| released = 0.7, {{
| latest release version = 5.4.
| latest release date = {{
| operating system = Cross-platform, same as [[Libwww]]
| genre = [[Web browser]]
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]<ref>{{cite web|title=LM_Availability – /Talk_Feb-91|url=http://www.w3.org/Talks/LM_Avaliability.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|
| license = [[W3C Software Notice and License]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.w3.org/LineMode/}}
}}
The '''Line Mode Browser''' (also known as '''LMB''',<ref>{{cite web|title=How can I download a Document?|url=http://www.w3.org/Library/FAQ/DownLoad.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|
The browser was the first demonstrated to be [[porting|portable]] to several different [[operating system]]s.<ref name="tenyarscern">{{cite web|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the
Operated from a simple [[command-line interface]], it could be widely used on many computers and [[computer terminal]]s throughout the [[Internet]].
The browser was developed starting in 1990, and then supported by the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) as an example and [[Testbed|test application]] for the [[libwww]] [[library (computing)|library]].<ref name="startpage">{{cite web|title=WWW – The Libwww Line Mode Browser|url=http://www.w3.org/LineMode/|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|
== History ==
One of the fundamental concepts of the "[[World Wide Web]]" projects at [[CERN]] was "[[Cross-platform|universal readership]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=W3 Concepts|url=http://www.w3.org/Talks/General/Concepts.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|
The name "Line Mode Browser" refers to the fact that, to ensure compatibility with the earliest computer terminals such as [[teleprinter|Teletype machines]], the program only displayed text, (no images) and had only line-by-line text input (no cursor positioning).<ref name="IEEE" /><ref name="living" />
Development started in November 1990 and the browser was demonstrated in December 1990.<ref name="historyw3c">{{cite web|title=A Little History of the World Wide Web|url=http://www.w3.org/History.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|
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The development environment used resources from the PRIAM project, a French language acronym for "PRojet Interdivisionnaire d'Assistance aux Microprocesseurs", a project to standardise microprocessor development across CERN.<ref>{{cite journal |title= PRIAM and VMEbus at CERN |last= Eck |first= C. |date= December 1985 |
The short development time produced software in a simplified dialect of the [[C (programming language)|C programming language]]. The official standard [[ANSI C]] was not yet available on all platforms.<ref name="IEEE" />
The Line Mode Browser was released to a limited audience on [[VAX]], [[RS/6000]] and [[Sun-4]] computers in March 1991.<ref name="cern">{{cite web|last=Crémel|first=Nicole|title=A Little History of the World Wide Web|url=http://ref.web.cern.ch/ref/CERN/CNL/2001/001/www-history/|publisher=[[CERN]]|
Users could use the browser from anywhere in the [[Internet]] through the [[telnet]] protocol to the ''info.cern.ch'' machine (which was also the first web server).
The spreading news of the World Wide Web in 1991 increased interest in the project at CERN and other laboratories such as [[DESY]] in [[Germany]], and elsewhere throughout the world.<ref name="tenyarscern" /><ref>{{cite book|first1=James|last1=Gillies|first2=Robert|last2=Cailliau|
The first stable version, 1.1, was released in January 1992.<ref name="cern" /><ref>The [[Network File System (protocol)|PC-NFS]] version (dated 92.01.16) for MS-DOS: [https://www.w3.org/2016/11/ftp-shutdown/info.html wwwpcnfs.zip] ('''NOTE:''' Firefox browsers may refuse to download the file, claiming that "file contains a virus or malware". [[VirusTotal]] [https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/1e1a16c01b613745ba1ec674d07b59030df8facc2ebdb07bd3983442951aa616/detection results].).</ref> Since version 1.2l, released in October 1992, the browser has used the ''common code library'' (later called [[libwww]]).<ref name="linemodechangehistory" /> The main developer, Pellow, started working on the [[MacWWW]] project, and both browsers began to share some [[source code]].<ref>{{cite web|
The [[Agora (web browser)|Agora]] World Wide Web email browser was based on the Line Mode Browser.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sendall|first=Mike|title=World Wide Web Clients|url=http://www.w3.org/Clients.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|
== Operating mode ==
The simplicity of the Line Mode Browser had several limitations.
The Line Mode Browser was designed to work on any operating system using what were called "dumb" terminals. The [[user interface]] had to be as simple as possible. The user began with a command-line interface specifying a
Navigation was not controlled by a [[pointing device]] such as a [[Mouse (computing)|mouse]] or [[arrow keys]], but by text commands typed into the program.<ref>{{cite web|title=Features_of_LM – /Talk_Feb-91|url=http://www.w3.org/Talks/Features_of_LM.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|
Numbers in brackets are displayed for each link; links are opened by typing the corresponding number into the program.
This led one journalist of the time to write: "The Web is a way of finding information by typing numbers."<ref name="leefaq"/>
The page [[scrolling|scrolled]] down when an empty command ([[carriage return]]) was entered, and scrolled up with the command "<code>u</code>". The command "<code>b</code>" navigated backwards in history, and new pages were navigated with "<code>g http://...</code>" (for ''go to'') and the URL.<ref>{{cite web|
The browser had no authoring functions, so pages could only be read and not edited. This was considered to be unfortunate by [[Robert Cailliau]], one of the developers:
== Features ==
The Line Mode Browser was designed to be able to be [[Cross-platform#Platform-
Other features included [[rlogin]]<ref name="newsletter92">{{cite web|title=What's new in '92|url=http://www.w3.org/News/9201.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|
== See also ==
* [[History of the World Wide Web]]
== References ==
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== Further reading ==
*{{cite book|last=Gay|first=Martin|title=Recent advances and issues in computers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sv7N_JKMPl8C&pg=PA121|
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*{{cite book|last=Kantor|first=Andrew|title=60-minute guide to the Internet: including the World-Wide Web|year=1995|publisher=IDG Books Worldwide|isbn=1-56884-342-9|url=https://archive.org/details/60minuteguidetoi00kant}}
== External links ==
* {{official website|http://www.w3.org/LineMode/}}
* [https://line-mode.cern.ch/ Line Mode Browser 2013 (CERN)]
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