Tutorial Page for Lynx Browser Aficionados

I've covered Lynx in a few tutorials, but have never really given a general introduction to the browser.

I just found a web page that gives a nice introduction to Lynx for general browsing.

Using a text browser for surfing the Web might seem a little strange, but it can be very useful in certain situations.

Using Lynx to see what your web site looks like to search engines

Google's webmaster guidelines recommend using Lynx to see how your site might look to a search engine:

"Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would."

Screenshot of the BBC News viewed with Lynx

Using Lynx to extract text from Web pages and Web sites

I've covered this in a few tutorials already:

• Using Lynx to extract text from Web pages
• Checking HTTP response headers with Lynx
• How to save the text from Web sites

Using Lynx to resuce your system

If you have a problem on your computer and can't boot into X (the windowing system powering your graphical desktop) then you can still use Lynx to search the Web for an answer. When my Windows computer became unbootable it took me a week to fix and the computer was useless during that time. When my Ubuntu system (graphical desktop) became unbootable, I just launched Lynx, used Google to search for an answer to my problem, and my system was fixed within 15 minutes.