Some of the pros, cons, irritations, and joys of using a text-based web browser, from one person's point of view.

ACCMAIL is a moderated forum for news, comments, questions and answers on how to browse the World-Wide Web, retrieve files from FTP sites, and read and post to Usenet newsgroups - using email only.

ELinks is an open-source (GNU) text WWW browser supporting almost full HTML/4.0 (without CSS; including tables, frames and full color support), HTTP/1.1, FTP, tabs support etc. It is a full-featured browser with focus on menu-driven interface and high configurability.

Offers text only internet/intranet access to 3270 mainframe terminals. Accessed as a VTAM/CMS application. Access control via RACF/ACF2, and audit trail available. [3270-mainframe]

Links is a WWW text browser with table support.

Mailing list for Links, a text based web browser.

Links is a text-based browser with support for HTML tables and frames. For Unix, OS/2, BeOS, MacOSX, Win32 (Beta).

Pure text Internet tools for the DOS operating system, including a web page grabber and mail reader.

Apple Mac text-only browser.

A text-based web-browser and e-mail client. It has been designed to be mostly platform independent and is able to run on a wide variety of systems including UNIX/Linux and MS-Windows.

A freeware text-mode web browser for DOS compatible computers. Low resource requirements.

An open source application that allows the user to navigate off-line and search the whole Internet via electronic mail (e-mail) by using any standard Web browser and a MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Exchange) aware e-mail program.