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<h2>About Lynx</h2>
<p><strong>Lynx</strong> is a fully-featured <em>World Wide
Web</em> (<em>WWW</em>) browser for users on Unix, VMS, and other
platforms running cursor-addressable, character-cell terminals or
emulators. That includes vt100 terminals, other character-cell
displays, and vt100 emulators such as Kermit or Procomm running
on PCs or Macs.</p>
<p>For information on how to use <strong>Lynx</strong> see the
<a href="Lynx_users_guide.html">Lynx User's Guide</a>, or the
<a href="lynx_help_main.html">Lynx help files</a>.</p>
<h2>Credits and Copyright</h2>
<p><strong>Lynx</strong> was a product of the Distributed
Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of <a href=
"http://web.archive.org/web/19971210163627/http://www.cc.ukans.edu/">
The University of Kansas</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Lynx</strong> was originally developed by <a href=
"http://web.archive.org/web/20040309105337/http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Lou.Montulli.html">
Lou Montulli</a>, <a href=
"http://condor.cc.ku.edu/~grobe/">Michael Grobe</a>, and <a href=
"http://web.archive.org/web/20040412210202/http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Charles.Rezac.html">
Charles Rezac</a>. <a href=
"http://web.archive.org/web/20040412210651/http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Garrett/Garrett_Arch_Blythe.html">
Garrett Blythe</a> created <a href=
"http://web.archive.org/web/20040812204015/http://www.cc.ukans.edu/about_doslynx/doslynx.html">
DosLynx</a> and later joined the <strong>Lynx</strong> effort as
well. Following the departures of Lou and Garrett for positions
at Netscape in the summer of 1994, <em>Craig Lavender</em>
provided support services for <strong>Lynx</strong>, and
<em>Ravikumar Kolli</em> for DosLynx.</p>
<p><strong>Lynx</strong> is maintained and supported by members
of the Internet community coordinated via the <a href=
"#lynx-dev_list"><em>lynx-dev mailing list</em></a>.</p>
<p><strong>Lynx</strong> is derived from material copyrighted by
the University of Kansas. However most of the release (and
corresponding copyright) is the work of developers on the
<a href="#lynx-dev_list"><em>lynx-dev mailing list</em></a>. It
is distributed <a href="COPYHEADER">without restrictions on usage
or redistribution</a> under the <a href="COPYING">GNU General
Public License (Version 2)</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Lynx</strong> was built over an early version of the
Common Code Library developed by the CERN WWW Project. That code
is copyrighted by CERN. <strong>Lynx</strong> contains other
sections of code that are copyrighted by other institutions or
individuals. The <strong>Lynx</strong> copyright does not
override or invalidate those copyrights.</p>
<p>Thanks to <a name="note13" href=
"http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/" id="note13">Tim
Berners-Lee</a> and the other <a name="note14" href=
"http://www.w3.org/People.html" id="note14">CERN World Wide Web
wizards</a> for the WWW client library code and all of their
other work on the WWW project, NCSA and the <a href=
"http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html">
Mosaic</a> developers, and to everyone out in netland who has
contributed to <strong>Lynx</strong>'s development either
directly (through comments or bug reports) or indirectly (through
inspiration and development of other systems).</p>
<p>Also, special thanks go to <em>Foteos Macrides</em> who ported
much of <strong>Lynx</strong> to VMS and did much of its
development following Lou Montulli's and Garrett Blythe's
departures from the University of Kansas, and to <em>Earl
Fogel</em> of the University of Saskatchewan. Earl implemented
the hypertext engine HYPERREZ in the Unix environment. HYPERREZ
was developed by Niel Larson of Think.com and served as the model
for the early versions of <strong>Lynx</strong> which did not use
the WWW libraries and had their own hypertext format.</p>
<h2><a name="availability" id=
"availability">Availability</a></h2>
<p>Information on obtaining the most current version of
<strong>Lynx</strong> is available via the <a href=
"https://lynx.invisible-island.net">Lynx homepage</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="lynx-dev_list" id="lynx-dev_list">Mailing
List</a></h2>
<p>We have a mailing list for <strong>Lynx</strong> development
discussion. If you are interested in joining the list, follow
this <a href="lynx-dev.html">link</a>. There also are links to
<a href=
"http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev/">archives</a> in
html format for this mailing list.</p>
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