Agora (web browser)

Agora
Original author(s)Arthur Secret
Developer(s)World Wide Web Consortium / CERN
Final release
0.8f / 2 July 1997 (1997-07-02)
Written inPerl
Operating systemDEC Alpha
PlatformPerl
Available inEnglish
Typeweb browser
LicenseW3C Software Notice and License/CERN open source copyright
Websitew3.org/Agora/ at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 August 1997)
www.w3.org/History/1996/WWW/Agora/

Agora was a World Wide Web email browser that served as a proof of concept to help people use the full internet. Agora was an email-based web browser designed for non-graphic terminals and to help people without full access to the internet such as in developing countries or without a permanent internet connection. Similar to W3Gate, Agora was a server application designed to fetch HTML documents through e-mail rather than http.