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Re:Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained by mongol on Sunday March 16, 2025 @08:38AM (#43378555)
No it wasn't. The img element was not added to the standard until HTML 2.0
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Re:Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained by crazygringo on Sunday March 16, 2025 @08:48AM (#43378610)
Images and other media were supported from the start, they just opened in separate windows instead of being inline.

The first browser ran on NeXT, graphically. It did not grow out of the terminal. And the very first publicly formalized definition of HTML in 1993 did already include the img tag:

https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt

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Re:Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained by c-linkage on Sunday March 16, 2025 @08:59AM (#43378685)
OP never said that the web was terminal based. He said it was text-based. Text should render fine either in a terminal or on a graphical canvas.
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Re:Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained by johnkizer on Sunday March 16, 2025 @10:37AM (#43379410)
That doesn't necessarily hold true with rich text, though...
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Re:Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:03AM (#43379603)
Heading formats can be well represented on an VT320. HTML didn't have color text at the start.
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