The Command Line Browser is Back!

I don't know if you've heard, but text is the new picture, and command line is the new GUI.

Ladies and Gentelmen, may I reintroduce you to: LYNX, the open source, text only, command line browser with an attitude.

All this Web 2.0/ajax/internet-sitting-on-a-shiny-table business falls apart if you can't find what you were looking for, and even the fastest system running Firefox (or Swiftfox, if you're in the club) doesn't touch how fast LYNX is. Don't you ever want to cut through all the formatting and slick interfaces to just get the information you were looking for?

After spending four hours on Saturday reading every post since January on Mark Cuban's blog, and the last several months on Jeopardy! winner Ken Jennings' blog, my eyes were pretty sore. Black text+white background= HEADACHE. I remembered how much I had like using LYNX with the old Powerbook Duo 520c because Netscape 2.0 was far to slow.

So I opened my terminal, i ran "smart install lynx" and there it was. It sets pictures as links and it just opens them in a seperate window, it downloads files easily, and the bookmarks, history and cookie managment are great. I'm not suggesting you switch or anything, but it makes a fantastic addition to your internet experience.
- posted by Mason @ 10:51 AM