original description of lynx

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 Lynx is a general-purpose distributed information browser and is part
 of the World Wide Web project.  Lynx was designed to support a  Campus
 Wide  Information  System  (CWIS),  but  can  be  used  for many other
 applications.

 When  it  is  started,  Lynx  is  given a local path specifying a file
 containing text to be displayed, or a Uniform Resource  Locator  (URL)
 that  specifies a resource to be displayed (usually the name of a file
 containing text information), the type of  server  that  will  provide
 the  resource,  and  the  Internet  address of the system on which the
 specified  server  is  running.   If  the  URL  or  path  specifies  a
 hypertext  file, that file will be a standard ASCII text file in which
 hypertext links are embedded.  The simplest hypertext link is  just  a
 URL  designating  another  resource which itself may contain both text
 and links.

 When  a  hypertext document is being displayed, links appear different
 from standard  text,  and  users  press  the  up-  or  down-arrows  to
 "select"  a  particular  link.   Selected links show up as highlighted
 text,  and  users  press  Return  or  right  arrow  when  a  link   is
 highlighted  to "follow" the selected link.  When the link is followed
 Lynx finds the associated file and displays it on the screen in  place
 of the first file.

 Lynx data files can reside on any accessable local file system. (i.e.
 NFS, AFS, etc.), or on remote  servers.   Currently  supported  remote
 servers  are  HTTP,  Gopher,  FTP, NNTP, and WAIS.  A single hypertext
 file may include links pointing to multiple remote  servers,  so  that
 Lynx provides a truly distributed hypertext system.

 Lynx is available for most flavors of Unix and VMS

 This  Un*x version of Lynx should work on any system with a reasonable
 Curses implementation