MidasWWW browser
This page was last updated at: Mar 13, 2026
MidasWWW is one of the earliest (now discontinued) web browsers. During the summer of 1992, Tony Johnson at SLAC developed a browser called Midas, to help distribute information to colleagues about his physics research.
MidasWWW was a web browser that ran on Desktop devices. It was discontinued in 1992.
About MidasWWW
| Browser URL | web.archive.org/web/19970213080653/hpux.cs.utah.edu:80/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/midaswww-2.1/ |
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| Browser made by | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| Development Status |
Discontinued The developers have announced that the browser won't be developed any more
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| Launched | 1992 |
| Discontinued | 1992 |
| Operating Systems |
Unix-like
It ran on Unix and OpenVMS.
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| Device platform | Desktop |
| Rendering Engine | Custom |
| Source Code Repository? |
MidasWWW has a public source-code repository
The source code from 1992 has been made available on GitHub
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Get MidasWWW
| Source Code Repository | https://github.com/dckc/MidasWWW |
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Further links
| Wikipedia Article | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MidasWWW |
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