Argo was part of a project to make the Internet accessible to scholars in the Humanities at the University of Groningen. The Argo web browser was created in August 1994 by Bert Bos.

Functionality

The browser featured plug-in modules, or "applets", which allowed for the addition of new functionality without recompilation. Instances of such functionality provided by the applets includes adding support for the following:

Bookmarks/history

Cache/proxy support

Data formats (e.g. ASCII, GIF, HTML, JPEG, XBM, XPM)

E-mail clients (e.g. mutt, pine)

Protocols (e.g. FTP, Gopher, HTTP, NNTP, WAIS)

Graphical navigation

The browser's kernel depended on the modules to give such functionality.