[michrassena]

I remember trying it in the mid 90s and then not using it much. I remember it being quite slow. The lack of even rudimentary multi-tasking caused it to hang easily. I could see where it might be useful in a lab with 8086 and 286 machines. But I think even at the time, this software had what seemed like a high cost, like $99. If there had ever been a DOS-only port of Lynx (without requiring Win32), that would have been a better option instead.

Since the 486 I used could run Windows 3.1, Trumpet Winsock and Netscape and later Opera were good enough for the times. It was claimed that Opera was written in assembler (and it did feel like it was faster than other browsers) and it introduced MDI (tabbed) browsing.

[UncleSlacky]

Arachne's still (freely) available though it hasn't been updated since 2013 (and 2010 for the last Linux (curses) version). There is now a version for 386 and better which should be a bit quicker: http://www.glennmcc.org/

There's also a DOS version of Lynx (DOSLynx) that's been around for some time: http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/doslynx.htm