November 8, 2007
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Internet Browsing the Old Fashioned Way ;D
Those of you who may be too young to remember, back before the advent of Internet Explorer and it’s ilk, web browsing was done on a purely text based …er… basis. Which was a good thing, because if you’ve ever tried to browse with a 14.4 K modem… ugh.
Computer geeks felt the need for speed and they satisfied that need by keeping things as simple as they could. To that extent, Lynx is faster than anything that’s out there right now. ANYTHING. It doesn’t load graphics, it doesn’t load CSS and it doesn’t support any fancy scripts. It shows texts & links. Primarily because back it the heyday of text based browsing there wasn’t anything else to show. Aside from some fancy asciii art.
Bob knows why, I’m still on a masochistic kick, one that involves “returning” to archaic command based days of PC-yesteryear. Anywho, in the screenshot you see, I am trying to make my way through my own Xanga page… Now if only I could use it to update my blog … :
Err… that’s all. =^^=
