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Lynx pre-dates Mosaic... "As of 2025, it is the oldest web browser still being maintained"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

It's not even the only TUI browser pronounced that way. See: links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)

Lynx is a well-known project which has been around for far longer than Github even existed - since 1992, in fact - which is in any case irrelevant, since it's not developed on GitHub: the commits for ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots are snapshots of the code from the website proper.

Removed the star count as any sort of “evidence” to popularity - the point still stands though. It feels absurd to claim a name being “reused,” or implied stolen, when the name is a generic animal name.

Bikeshedding about names, article titles and tangential annoyances is HN’s favorite pastime, and an easy way to get karma. As old as the hills.

I believe it's spelled as "pastime" :)

^art

i am not affiliated with any of the projects, its just what i use.