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by kaiwen1 453 days ago
I still used Lynx as my default browser while working on ships until 2020. Satellite internet connections at sea were slow and very expensive which made Lynx a good choice. But it turned out that the text-based, distraction-free browsing could be a better experience than the same site in a modern browser. And a few sites still serve text versions, like text.npr.org. I liked Lynx enough that I would still use it back on land until the habit faded.
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You would love gopher with gopher://magical.fish and gopher://sdf.org among others such as gopher://gopher.icu

Oh, and reddit: gopher://gopherddit.com

HN: gopher://gopherddit.com

But, as they stated, connecting to a pubic Unix like mosh was and is magic.