On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 12:11:02AM -0800, Bela Lubkin wrote: > Thomas Michanek wrote: > > > I have an older Mac laptop running MacOS 10.12.x > > I have installed Lynx as part of Lynxlet (version 0.8.1), which contains > > a Lynx installation with the following version information: > > > Lynx Version 2.8.6rel.5 (09 May 2007) > > > libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l, ncurses 5.7.20081102 > > > Built on darwin8.9.1 Jun 8 2007 06:18:10 > > As others have stated, this version of Lynx (and associated libraries) > is just too old to do much with the modern web. Specifically, almost > all web sites now insist on HTTPS protocol, and most will only offer > relatively recent versions of the associated cryptography protocols.
Gopherspace beckons. That old lynx should still work with: Gopher index <gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn> Gopher search <gopher://gopher.icu/1/quarry> Gopher web proxy <gopher://nihirash.net:7000/7/>
