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## Appendix A History and Acknowledgments

EWW was originally written by Lars Ingebrigtsen, known for his work on Gnus. He started writing an Emacs HTML rendering library, `shr.el`, to read blogs in Gnus. He eventually added a web browser front end and HTML form support. Which resulted in EWW, the Emacs Web Wowser. EWW was announced on 16 June 2013: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2013/06/16/eww/.

EWW was then moved from the Gnus repository to GNU Emacs and several developers started contributing to it as well.