Web authors combine Lynx with a text editor, using Lynx's local cgi execution functions and its hypertext browsing functions to create an environment in which they can develop complex web-sites and Internet applications. Various organizations use Lynx to provide a menu based, hyperlinked interface to databases and other resources like help files. In fact, this was Lynx's original function at the University of Kansas. Lynx has been ported to many personal digital assistants. It is ideal for use on hand-held machines which do not have large displays.
Lynx is used by people in shell scripts to perform various tasks, though wget is better for some.