What is Lynx?
[rootd;19nov94] Lynx is another world-wide-web browser (like Mosaic). Lynx, however, uses a text interface, so you don’t need a fancy x-window (or MacMosaic or WinMosaic) to browse the web (this is great when I dial in from home, and only have an ascii terminal). You can find lynx (and several other web-browsers) at ftp.isri.unlv.edu in /pub/mirror/infosystems/WWW/clients. Of course, you could always use archie to find other ftp sites with lynx. • I can telnet to the internet. Can I access the web? [harper;22Jul94] Surprise surprise, not everyone has a workstation or Xwindows, and many scientists only have simple vt100 emulation on their desktop machine. They read about www, gopher, archie, etc, but due to hardware or software limitations they can not get at any of the goodies on the net. There are not many “public access” sites that allow you to open up a telnet session and then choose from the most popular services on the net today.
