Chapter 42. Surfing with Lynx
Remember that sense of high-tech adventure you first felt when you began to explore the Internet? The amazement that in the blink of an eye you could be connected to a site in Paris, or Moscow, or San Francisco?
Of course, that was before the WWW became the world wide wait. The slowdown of the Web is due to primarily to g-forces, and I don’t mean gravity. It’s the weight of that damn GUI you’re reclining in. Come on, you lazy louts, I’ll show you one way to regain that sense of cutting-edge adventure by surfing from the console. Meet Lynx, the senior member of the text-based browsing club.
Quoting from the Web History page at LivingInternet.com:
Lynx. The University of Kansas had written a hypertext browser independently ...
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