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{{short description|Text-based, cross-platform web browser}}
{{Distinguish|Links (web browser)|LynxOS}}
{{Infobox web browser
| name                    = Lynx
| logo                    = 
| screenshot              = Wikipedia Wolf article on Lynx.png
| caption                 = The Wikipedia article on [[wolves]] displayed in Lynx; images are displayed as orange [[alt text]]
| collapsible             = 
| author                  = [[Lou Montulli]], Michael Grobe, Charles Rezac
| developer               = Thomas Dickey
| released                = {{Start date and age|1992}}
| latest release version  = {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q207872|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date     = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|Q207872|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}}}
| latest preview version  = {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q207872|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date     = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|Q207872|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}}}
| discontinued            = 
| programming language    = [[C (programming language)#ANSI C and ISO C|ISO C]]
| operating system        = [[Unix-like]],<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nelson|first1=H.|title=Lynx Installation Guide|url=http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.8.8/breakout/INSTALLATION|website=lynx.invisible-island.net|date=24 April 1999|access-date=11 June 2017|archive-date=5 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170605125102/http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.8.8/breakout/INSTALLATION|url-status=live}}</ref> [[DOS]], [[Windows]], [[OpenVMS|VMS]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.8.8/index.html |title={{sic|Lynx|2.8.8|nolink=yes}} |last=Dickey |first=Thomas |date=11 September 2015 |website=lynx.invisible-island.net |access-date=11 June 2017 |archive-date=18 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170618082253/http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.8.8/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
| engine                  = [[fork (software development)|fork]] of [[libwww]]
| platform                = <!--Exactly which?-->
| size                    = 
| language                = [[English language|English]]
| genre                   = [[Text-based web browser]]
| license                 = [[GNU General Public License#Version 2|GNU GPLv2]]
| standard                = 
| AsOf                    = 
| website                 = {{Official URL}}
}}

'''Lynx''' is a customizable [[text-based web browser]] for use on cursor-addressable character cell [[computer terminal|terminals]].{{sfn|Rakitin|1997}}{{sfn|Legan|2001}} {{As of|2025}}, it is the oldest web browser still being maintained,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lynx current development|url=https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/|date=2016-04-27|access-date=2024-09-08|website=TecMint}}</ref> having started in 1992.

==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 |url-access=subscription }}</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}}

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>

==Features==
[[File:Lynx vs. Firefox rendering.png|thumb|Lynx and [[Mozilla Firefox|Firefox]] rendering the same page]]
Browsing in Lynx consists of highlighting the chosen link using cursor keys, or having all links on a page numbered and entering the chosen link's number.{{sfn|User's Guide}} Current versions support [[Secure Sockets Layer|SSL]]{{sfn|Legan|2001}} and many [[HTML]] features. Tables are formatted using spaces, while frames are identified by name and can be explored as if they were separate pages. Lynx is not inherently able to display various types of non-text content on the web, such as images and video,{{sfn|Rakitin|1997}} but it can launch external programs to handle it, such as an image viewer or a video player.{{sfn|User's Guide}}

Unlike most web browsers, Lynx does not support [[JavaScript]], which many websites require to work correctly.{{sfn|Wallen|2011}}

The speed benefits of text-only browsing are most apparent when using low bandwidth internet connections,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-01-18 |title=What is Lynx, and how do I use it? |url=https://kb.iu.edu/d/afik |access-date=2022-09-16 |website=[[Indiana University]] |archive-date=2022-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915232646/https://kb.iu.edu/d/afik |url-status=live }}</ref> or older computer hardware that may be slow to render image-heavy content.

===Privacy===
Because Lynx does not support graphics, [[web bug]]s that track user information are not fetched, meaning that web pages can be read without the privacy concerns of graphic web browsers.{{sfn|Legan|2002}} However, Lynx does support [[HTTP cookie]]s,{{sfn|Rakitin|1997}} which can also be used to track user information. Lynx therefore supports cookie [[whitelist]]ing and [[blacklist]]ing, or alternatively cookie support can be disabled permanently.{{sfn|User's Guide}}

As with conventional browsers, Lynx also supports browsing histories and page caching,{{sfn|Senjen|Guthrey|1996|pp=136-139}} both of which can raise privacy concerns.{{sfn|Timmer|2010}}

===Configurability===
Lynx supports both command-line options and configuration files. There are 142 command-line options according to its help message. The template configuration file <code>lynx.cfg</code> lists 233 configurable features. There is some overlap between the two approaches to configuration, although there are command-line options such as <code>-restrict</code> which are not matched in <code>lynx.cfg</code>. In addition to pre-set options by command-line and configuration file, Lynx's behavior can be adjusted at runtime using its options menu. Again, there is some overlap between the settings. Lynx implements many of these runtime optional features, optionally (controlled through a setting in the configuration file) allowing the choices to be saved to a separate writable configuration file. The reason for restricting the options which can be saved originated in a usage of Lynx which was more common in the mid-1990s, i.e., using Lynx itself as a front-end application to the Internet accessed by dial-in connections.{{sfn|Help file}}{{sfn|Configuration file}}{{sfn|User's Guide}}

===Accessibility===
Because Lynx is a text-based browser, it can be used for internet access by visually impaired users on a [[refreshable braille display]] and is easily compatible with [[text-to-speech]] software.{{sfn|Paciello|2000|p=157}}{{sfn|Bolso|2005}}{{sfn|Seltzer|1995}} As Lynx substitutes images, frames and other non-textual content with the text from <code>alt</code>, <code>name</code> and <code>title</code> [[HTML attribute]]s{{sfn|RNIB|2011}} and allows hiding the [[user interface]] elements,{{sfn|Rosmaita|1996}} the browser becomes specifically suitable for use with cost-effective general purpose screen reading software.{{sfn|Dixon|2004}}{{sfn|Rosmaita}}{{sfn|Sajka|1999}} A version of Lynx specifically enhanced for use with screen readers on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] was developed at [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras]].{{sfn|Achraya|2006}}

===Remote access===
Lynx is  also useful for accessing websites from a remotely connected system in which no graphical display is available.{{sfn|Wayner|2010}}{{sfn|Chapman|2003}}{{sfn|Killelea|2002|p=9}} Despite its text-only nature and age, it can still be used to effectively browse much of the modern web, including performing interactive tasks such as editing [[Wikipedia]].{{sfn|Senjen|Guthrey|1996|pp=136-139}}{{sfn|Killelea|2002|pp=60-61}}{{sfn|Taylor|2005|pp=225-227}}

===Web design and robots===
Since Lynx will take keystrokes from a text file, it is still very useful for automated data entry, web page navigation, and [[web scraping]]. Consequently, Lynx is used in some web crawlers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blog::Quibb » Crawling the Web With Lynx |url=https://blog.quibb.org/2010/11/crawling-the-web-with-lynx/ |access-date=2024-07-19 |language=en}}</ref> Web designers may use Lynx to determine the way in which search engines and web crawlers see the sites that they develop.{{sfn|King|2008|pp=44-46}}{{sfn|Bartlett|2006}}{{sfn|Rognerud|2010|p=187}} Online services that provide Lynx's view of a given web page are available.{{sfn|Paciello|2000|p=135}}

Lynx is also used to test websites' performance. As one can run the browser from different locations over remote access technologies like [[Telnet]] and [[Secure Shell|SSH]], one can use Lynx to test the website's connection performance from different geographical locations simultaneously.{{sfn|Killelea|2002|pp=60-61}} Another possible web design application of the browser is quick checking of the site's links.{{sfn|Killelea|2002|p=178}}

==Supported platforms==
[[File:Lynx2.gif|thumb|Icon for OS/2 port]]
Lynx was originally designed for [[Unix-like]] operating systems. It was ported to [[OpenVMS|VMS]] soon after its public release and to other systems, including [[DOS]], [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Classic Mac OS]] and [[OS/2]].{{sfn|Paciello|2000|pp=154-155}} It was included in the default [[OpenBSD]] installation from OpenBSD 2.3 (May 1998){{sfn|OpenBSD23}} to 5.5 (May 2014),{{sfn|OpenBSD55}} being in the main tree prior to July 2014,{{sfn|de Raadt|2014}} subsequently being made available through the ports tree.{{sfn|OpenBSDport}} Lynx can also be found in the [[software repository|repositories]] of most [[Linux]] distributions, as well as in the [[Homebrew_(package_management_software)|Homebrew]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lynx |title=Homebrew Formulae |publisher=Homebrew |access-date=January 23, 2019 |archive-date=January 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124041445/https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lynx |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Fink (software)|Fink]], and [[MacPorts]] repositories for [[macOS]].{{sfn|Taylor|2005|pp=225-227}} Ports to [[BeOS]], [[MINIX]], [[QNX]], [[AmigaOS]]{{sfn|Marquardt|1995}} and [[OS/2]]{{sfn|Legan|2002}} are also available.

The sources can be built on many platforms, such as Google's [[Android OS|Android]] operating system.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16050683#post16050683|title=[APP] Compiled lynx binary for android - Shell or ADB|website=XDA Developers|date=27 July 2011|access-date=2016-05-27|archive-date=2016-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629123804/http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16050683#post16050683|url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
*[[Computer accessibility]]
*[[Links (web browser)]]
*[[Cello (web browser)]]
*[[ELinks]]
*[[w3m]]
*[[ModSecurity#Former Lynx browser blocking]]
*[[Comparison of web browsers]]
*[[Timeline of web browsers]]
*[[Comparison of Usenet newsreaders]]

==Notes==
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*{{cite web|url=http://mdoc.su/o55/lynx.1|title=lynx(1) man page|date=2014-05-01|ref={{harvid|OpenBSD55}}|work=[[Timeline of OpenBSD|OpenBSD 5.5]]|access-date=2015-01-19}}
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*{{cite web|url=http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.8.8/breakout/lynx.cfg|title=Configuration File|ref={{harvid|Configuration file}}|author=Lynx Developers Group|work=Lynx official website|access-date=2017-04-12|archive-date=2017-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413071154/http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.8.8/breakout/lynx.cfg|url-status=live}}
{{refend}}

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