From a letter to a friend...

"I first fell in love with the web in Lynx. There was something amazingly intoxicating about tunneling through this immense new information space with just the back and forward keys on the keyboard. I remember countless late nights filled with "just one more link..."

I saw my first "image" browser some months later at a computer lab at the university. I viewed it with suspicion, as if my favorite copy of shakespeare's plays had suddenly begun sporting bright yellow smiley faces. Eventually (obviously) I was won over by it, but Lynx in some ways still represents the "real" web to me."