Argo was part of a project to make the Internet accessible to scholars in the Humanities at the University of Groningen. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks The University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen located in the city of Groningen, was founded in 1614. The Argo web browser was created in August 1994 by Bert Bos. Bert Bos is a computer scientist He studied Mathematics at the University of Groningen, and wrote his PhD thesis on Rapid user interface development
Functionality
The browser featured plug-in modules, or "applets", which allowed for the addition of new functionality without recompilation. An applet is a software component that runs in the context of another program for example a Web browser. Examples of such functionality provided by the applets includes adding support for the following:
- Bookmarks/history
- Cache/proxy support
- Data formats (e. In Computer science, a cache (kæʃ like "cash") is a collection of data duplicating original In Computer networks a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program which services the requests of its clients by forwarding g. ASCII, GIF, HTML, JPEG, XBM, XPM)
- E-mail clients (e. American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII) HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure In Computer graphics, the X Window System uses X BitMap ( XBM) an ASCII text Monochrome image format, for storing X Pixmap ( XPM) is an ASCII -text-based image format used by the X Window System. An e-mail client, aka Mail User Agent (MUA aka e-mail reader is a frontend Computer program used to manage E-mail. g. Mutt, Pine)
- Protocols (e. Mutt is a text-based E-mail client for Unix-like systems It was originally written by Michael Elkins in 1995 and released under the GNU General Pine was a Freeware, Text-based E-mail client developed at the University of Washington. In the field of Telecommunications, a communications protocol is the set of standard rules for data representation signaling authentication and error detection required to g. FTP, Gopher, HTTP, NNTP, WAIS)
- Graphical navigation
The browser's kernel depended on the modules to provide such functionality. For other uses see Gopher. Gopher is a distributed Document search and retrieval Network protocol designed Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP) is a Communications protocol for the transfer of information on the Internet. The Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading Wide Area Information Servers or WAIS is a Client-server text searching System that uses the ANSI Standard Z39 In Computer science, the kernel is the central component of most computer Operating systems (OS
See also
Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic