MidasWWW

MidasWWW
Developer(s)	Tony Johnson^[1]
Initial release	November 16, 1992 (1992-11-16)^[2]
Operating system	UNIX/VMS
Available in	EN
Type	Web browser
License	Freeware with source code
Website	http://hpux.cs.utah.edu:80/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/midaswww-2.1/ (defunct, archived 1997 at the Internet Archive)

MidasWWW is one of the earliest (now discontinued) web browsers, developed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).^[1] It ran under Unix^[1] and VMS. The last release was version 2.2. The 16 Nov 1992 sources were made available in June 2015 at GitHub without specified license.^[3]^[4]

References

1 2 3 Tim Berners-Lee. "What were the first WWW browsers?". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
↑ Johnson, Tony (16 November 1992). "MidasWWW first release". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
↑ Connolly, Dan (13 Jun 2015). "source to MidasWWW from 1992". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
↑ midasWWW at github

General
Comparison lightweight History List for Unix Usage share

1990s

1990	WorldWideWeb (Nexus)
1991	Line Mode Browser libwww
1992	Erwise MacWWW (Samba) MidasWWW tkWWW ViolaWWW
1993	AMosaic Arena Cello Emacs/W3 Lynx 2 NCSA Mosaic VMS Mosaic
1994	AirMosaic Internet in a Box ANT Fresco Argo IBM WebExplorer SlipKnot Minuet Navipress Mosaic/Mosaic Netscape/Netscape Navigator Spyglass Mosaic TCP/Connect II
1995	Agora ALynx AMSD Ariadna Cyberjack eWorld Web Browser Grail Internet Explorer 1 Internet Explorer 2 Netscape Navigator 2 NetShark OmniWeb HotJava UdiWWW WebShark
1996	Cyberdog Arachne AWeb IBrowse Amaya Internet Explorer 3 Netscape Navigator 3 Opera 2 Oracle PowerBrowser tcpCONNECT4 Voyager
1997	Netscape Communicator Internet Explorer 4 Opera 2.1
1998	NeoPlanet Mozilla Application Suite Opera 3–3.21
1999	iCab Internet Explorer 5 Omniweb 3 Opera 3.5–3.62

2000s

2000	Beonex Communicator Galeon K-Meleon MediaBrowser Netscape 6 Opera 4–4.02
2001	iCab 2.5 Internet Explorer 6 Omniweb 4 Opera 5–5.12
2002	Avant Browser 7 Camino Epiphany Netscape 7 Opera 6–6.1
2003	GreenBrowser Maxthon Opera 7–7.3 Safari SlimBrowser
2004	Avant Browser 9 Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox Opera 7.5–7.55
2005	AOL Explorer Deepnet Explorer Firefox 1.5 Opera 8–8.54 Safari 2
2006	Avant Browser 11 Firefox 2 Internet Explorer 7 Opera 9–9.27
2007	Maxthon 2 Opera 9.5–9.64 Safari 3 SeaMonkey 1.1
2008	Google Chrome Firefox 3 Netscape Browser Netscape Navigator 9 NetSurf 1.2
2009	Avant Browser 11.7 Google Chrome 2–3 Firefox 3.5 Internet Explorer 8 Opera 10–10.63 Pale Moon Safari 4 SeaMonkey 2.0

2010s

2010	Google Chrome 4–8 Firefox 3.6 Lunascape 6.0.1 Maxthon 3 NetSurf 2.5 Opera 11–11.64 Safari 5
2011	Google Chrome 9–16 Firefox 4–9 Internet Explorer 9 Lunascape 6.5 Opera 12–12.17 SeaMonkey 2.1–2.4 Waterfox
2012	Google Chrome 17–23 Firefox 10–17 Internet Explorer 10 Lunascape 6.7 Maxthon 3.4 NetSurf 2.9 Safari 6
2013	Google Chrome 24–31 Firefox 18–26 Internet Explorer 11 Opera 15–18 Safari 7 SeaMonkey 2.15–2.22
2014	Google Chrome 32–39 Firefox 27–34 Lunascape 6.9 NetSurf 3.1 Opera 19–26 Safari 8 SeaMonkey 2.23–2.31
2015	Google Chrome 40–47 Firefox 35–43 Lunascape 6.10–6.12 Microsoft Edge 20, 25 Opera 27–34 Safari 9 SeaMonkey 2.32–2.39 Vivaldi
2016	Google Chrome 48–55 Firefox 44–50 Lunascape 6.13–6.15 Microsoft Edge 38 Opera 35–42 Safari 10
2017	Basilisk Brave Google Chrome 56–63 Firefox 51–57 Microsoft Edge 40, 41 Opera 43–49 Safari 11 SeaMonkey 2.46–2.49
2018	Google Chrome 64– Firefox 58– Microsoft Edge 42- Opera 50-

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