Back in the days before GUI operating systems, the web was a completely different animal. Relying on text-only presentation, the king of Internet browsing was a program called Lynx.
Of course, back in those days, you had 9600 baud modems, unless you were a bleeding-edge person with a whopping 28.8 kbps one. However, even in today’s world of widely-available and affordable broadband connections, I still carry the flame for Lynx’s simplicity.
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Sure, because it doesn’t support graphics, JavaScript, Flash, and all the other fancy stuff, a lot of today’s popular sites don’t work at all with it. But if you’re just reading primarily text-only articles, it’s quite nice to be able to read without flashing banners, pop-up ads, and all those other things distracting you from the information you’re trying to digest.
Apropos mnmlist.com article
Obviously, Lynx isn’t for everyone, but if you’re a heavy article reader, maybe you should consider using this classic program again.
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