I used to browse with lynx till few years ago. I am not sure if it is practical to do that anymore. Most of the web is no longer friendly for text browsing.
Somewhat suprisingly, youtube is not too bad. I've used elinks to get a URL and then put that into youtube-dl. I suspect that any site that is designed to be friendly to a (vision impaired) screen reader is going to be friendly to text based browsing.