w3m is a free and open source text-based web browser licensed under the MIT license. It differs from other very early text-based browsers by supporting elements such as tables, frames, and images.
Key facts
- Software.name
- w3m
- Software.screenshot
- W3m-wikipedia.png
- Software.caption
- w3m running in an xterm displaying the Wikipedia main page.
- Software.developer
- Akinori Ito et al.
- Software.released
- 1995
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- OS/2, Unix & Unix-like (Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD and EWS-UX (EWS-4800), Windows (with Cygwin), macOS (with Homebrew)
- Software.language
- English and Japanese
- Software.genre
- Web browser, Terminal pager
- Software.license
- MIT license
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Encyclopedic overview
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- References
- External links
w3m is a free and open source text-based web browser licensed under the MIT license. It differs from other very early text-based browsers by supporting elements such as tables, frames, and images.
== History == The name "w3m" stands for "", which is Japanese for "to see the WWW", and where "W3" is a numeronym of "WWW". The original project is no longer active. A different developer, Tatsuya Kinoshita, was maintaining a fork until early 2024. Kinoshita left the project after a few months. A new fork was created as a result.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “w3m” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.