On: Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? (2011)

[kps]

The main difference is that in 1999 you could run lynx and see nothing but pure plain text. Today, browsers no longer fetch text — they fetch scripts that fetch scripts that fetch text.

DAMN KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN.

[talmand → kps]

New idea. Fetch script that emulates lynx in page, fetch script that fetches text to display as plain text.

Plugin maybe?

[gcb0 → kps]

I always had a hard time using lynx, since the early 90s

Even at that time, there were always some form scripting or frames that killed the experience in one way or another.

and i usually needed lynx to browse sites like distro repositories and the likes.