It does gopher one better by presenting text with hypertext links, pictures, sounds, movie clips, and other non-traditional information. There are many client programs that allow you to access the World Wide Web. Which you use depends, in part, on what kind of machine you are working from. It allows you to access all the text available on WebServers around the world. And although that may not be as fun, the fact that it does not need to send the large image files to your screen makes lynx quicker for accessing Web text.
Lynx IS able to follow the Web hypertext links that makes browsing through the Web so easy.
By the way, lynx will allow you to download an image to your microcomputer, where you can view it with the proper programs. A link is special part of the text that is sent to your screen when you access a Web page. It marks a connection to another web page, another part of the document, or another network service. In lynx, the part of the Web page that is a link is highlighted. You use the up and down arrow keys to move between different links on a page, and the right arrow to select a link.