text browser PCs? All Hail Lynx!!!

[Thom Gillespie]

On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, C. W. Tazewell wrote:

>      There are a surprising number of Internet users that are
> on networks, etc., where only text service is available.  And,
> a shell account is easier, simpler, and quicker.  You can even
> add graphics on a web page using any word or text processor -
> they are just files.

This is a tough one, probably the essence of the have-have_not problem 
which is rarely considered sitting at a US University with T3 and full 
blazing glory. Problem is very different in India outside of Bangalore, 
maybe in Faridabad, or in Yogyakarta or the country side of Bangladesh or 
inner-city NY or Indianapolis. If _information_ is the goal than Lynx 
works but if information is visual there is a big problem. Some folks 
need to design for the here and now, some folks need to design for 
tomorrow. Neither are right, neither are wrong, both are needed.

--Thom