Lynx is a text mode browser, typically used by people connected to the Internet with a dial-up shell account and a communications program which allows their personal computer to emulate a terminal (the most commonly emulated terminal is the DEC VT100 - the de-facto standard for terminal sessions on the net).
Lynx in a VT100 or other character based terminal session does not support the display of graphical images or other non-textual media, but in most other ways is completely compatible with pages placed on the World Wide Web (Lynx can launch external viewers for multimedia however, if run at a graphical workstation or any context other than a character terminal; e.g. DOS Lynx probably can launch external viewers).
The benefits of Lynx are that it is extremely fast and robust. For power web browsing, many people prefer Lynx even if they have the option of using Mosaic with a high-speed connection because Lynx is so fast and reliable. Lynx is provided free to the public by the University of Kansas. Versions are available for DOS and most flavors of UNIX.
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