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		mixmastamyk on Nov 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing the next generation of Mac Netscape?! That's for the kids, we used NCSA Mosaic and liked it. I suspect lynx is still around in some form.

marcolussetti on Nov 11, 2020 | [–]

Lynx is definitely still around. Useful for a quick "can I actually get to this site" sanity checks on servers.

encom on Nov 11, 2020 | [–]

Lynx is bloatware. Just use telnet.

snazz on Nov 11, 2020 | [–]

Unless it’s HTTPS-only, which is most sites these days....

(I’m definitely not arguing that that’s a bad thing; it just makes Telnet more annoying)

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