wasn't lynx before even Internet explorer 1.0?
Heck if you have retro computer site make it look as old fashioned as
you can
then it is retro... then if people don't like it... well... you know
the rest <grin>
lynx might be too primitive... no screen graphics on page as you
scroll
make the retro site
early graphical
with nasty looking fonts...
lots of 'under Construction signs
some nasty lo res motion gifs
Ed _www.amecc.org_ (
http://www.amecc.org)
In a message dated 7/2/2015 5:21:03 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
mouse at
Rodents-Montreal.ORG writes:
Subject: Re: How many use old browsers (e.g. =<
Netscape 4 or IE 6) as
their
ONLY source of web content?
I didn't see the original of this, probably (based on the headers)
because it was sent through gmail. But, assuming the Subject: is an
accurate guide to the content, I may qualify.
My use of the Web falls into four categories:
(1) At work, for work purposes, on work-owned and work-administered
machines. This is minimal and done when the job in question has some
internal tool that desn't provide any saner interface.
(2) Over others' shoulders, as it were; for example, I have had people
hand me palmtop comput...umm, "smart phones", displaying something I
suspect was obtained as a Web page.
(3) Scripted fetching of, eg, webcomic image files. (There are a
handful of webcomics which I find worthwhile enough to bother setting
up such scripted fetches for.)
(4) lynx.
So far, I haven't run into anything that I care enough about to provoke
me to bother finding/building anything more elaborate than lynx for my
own use.
Does lynx count as "=< Netscape 4 or IE 6"? Is my sample size of one
relevant for your purposes? Only you can say. :-)
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