This is great! I’ve been interested in Lynx for a while but hadn’t seen such a good overview on getting started.
I love that Lynx continues to exist after so long. I’m also proud my site mostly works as intended using this browser. All the rebuilds and learning proper semantic HTML were worth it.
I also really like FrogFind. I’m not sure if maybe the administrator is doing some work on it today, or if the server is just down, but it was up this morning, and now it’s no longer up.
The person who made it is apparently a YouTuber who’s into old computers and they talk about making FrogFind in this video. They also made another site called https://68k.news/ which pulls articles from Google News and strips them of styling. Unfortunately that’s not working right now either, but I enjoy the concept.
I tried it just now and I cried. I actually cried. (a little)
Context: Today has been a day of absolutely nothing working the way it’s supposed to. There’s an elliptical in 40 pieces on my office floor, my dryer is also in pieces, and Windows decided to interrupt a rush recording project I was working on with chiming ad popups. TWICE.
But Lynx? Lynx JUST WORKED. And I’m also happy to report that my website works mostly as intended in it. You of course miss the CSS and the pixel icons, but those were added to amuse me more than for any functionality. (The http version of my gemlog works perfectly, but I expected that, since I wrote it for Gemini.)
Even Wikipedia works pretty well, especially loaded via frogfind. I foresee myself doing a LOT of reading through Lynx. I may play around with wget too - I can see that being really useful for long flights or weekends at my parents’ where the “Internet connection” is more an aspiration than a reality.
http://links.twibright.com/ mutch better
it can https, and modern encryption. and also graphics, not all, but gif, jpeg, and png it can do
Lynx does HTTPS too, and I like how it colors text based on what element it’s in. It also speaks Gopher, and comes with a file manager built in, that isn’t half bad.
I appreciate how Lynx doesn’t do images. It’s also what I like about Gemini. If I want to see the picture I will click for it.