I was looking at W3M from emacs. I just have an overly
full plate at the moment.

BTW emacs looks fascinating....

Blessings,
Paul W.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Vedanta Teacher wrote:
>
> > Hummm, this is interesting. I was speaking with Wes at the last PLUG lab
> > and I pointed out that I'd been on the internet since 1986 when I was
> > using Jughead (?) Gopher (?) and pulling FTP files off of the web. And in
> > many ways the web was just as fast back then because we didn't have
> Flash,
> > Java etc. clogging the bandwith. As soon as I learn some command line
> > functions I may go exclusively to text based browsers to circumvent these
> > issues.
>
>    I, too, used archie and veronica to find and download ftp files before
> the
> Web was invented. I am aware of three text-based web browsers: links, lynx,
> and emacs (the text editor that has everything, including the kitchen
> sink).
>
>    Lynx is useful with an application's help pages are all in .html.
>
> Rich
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