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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx rules !
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Roger Hill |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx rules ! |
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Sat, 7 Dec 1996 07:21:01 -0400 (GMT-0400) |
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, JOHNLIM wrote:
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> Computimes How To Get Your PC a Life Contest
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> HEY YOU ! Yeah, you over there, readin' this piece of information.
> Information. Information Technology. The Internet. You must've been
> living on another planet if you haven't heard of these buzzwords.
>
> You've got a PC ? Fine. So do I. You have what, did I hear, a Pentium
> Pro 200 with 64M of RAM ? Big deal. I have an i486SX-25 with only 8M of
> RAM. Obsolete, maybe, but my PC still works. It has a life. I'm
> _CONNECTED_. I have a _modem_. Your PC is peanuts compared to mine when
> it comes to culling information from all over the world.
>
> Why, you ask ? Let me enlighten you.
>
> If you _really_ haven't heard of the Internet, I'll summarize it for you.
> It is a network of networks all over the world. Once online, you can do
> all sorts of stuff, from touring the world to sending e-mail to learning
> a new language (Klingon, anyone ?).
>
> Sounds cool ? It is. Get a modem, an Internet account, the software,
> then get it all working together. Help is available if you need it.
>
> When online, people use a browser to surf. Surfing usually means
> accessing WWW (World Wide Web) pages. Two popular browsers are Netscape
> and IExplorer. They're loaded with all the latest whizbangs and gizmos.
> They're great browsers and they have their own followings, however, my
> personal favourite is a free text-mode browser called Lynx. Yup, you read
> that right. Text-mode.
>
> See, with stuff like ActiveX, Java, Shockwave and whatnots, it takes time
> (ages actually) to load a web-page. They even invented a cliche for
> it - the (W)orld (W)ide (W)ait. I got sick and tired of waiting, so off
> I went searching high and low. Lo and behold, I found Lynx.
>
> Sure, pictures and moving text are nice, but the main thing
> I want from the 'Net is *information*. The rest are usually
> fancy frills, that's it. Most people who obtain Internet access
> soon find out that waiting for pictures to travel across the Atlantic
> ain't exactly fun. You can always turn pictures off in other browsers,
> but then again you might as well run in text mode.
>
> Lynx supports almost anything you can throw at it. It's fast, since
> I don't need to load the frills. It gets me what I want. If I do need
> pictures, there's an option for Lynx to download it (so I can view it
> later on). Transferring files via FTP ? News-reading ? Lynx has it all.
>
> Lynx currently runs on various Unixes. A variant of it called DOSLynx
> for DOS works, but it's mediocre. However, all is not lost -- it might be
> ported over to DOS and Windows soon, so stay tuned.
>
> There you have it. That's how I overcame my problem surfing the
> (W)orld (W)ide (W)ait. Some may say I'm going overboard. Fine, but
> it suits me well. One man's meat is another's poison I guess.
>
> Ultimately, the choice is yours. _My_ PC has a life. Does _yours_ ?
>
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This is so good, that I'd like to see it on the lynx.browser .org site
somewhere...and maybe forward it to Hotwired for Rob.
Well done!
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Roger Hill, M.I.S Manager, McEnearney Alstons (Barbados) Ltd
My opinions are my own, not my employer's.
Tel:246-230-9596 Fax:246-433-8365 E-mail: address@hidden
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