Lynx currently runs on UNIX and VMS, and a DOS version is in the works as well. Lynx was developed by Lou Montulli, Charles Rezac, and Michael Grobe of the University of Kansas. Originally designed for the purpose of building a self-contained Campus Wide Information System at the University of Kansas. Lynx was eventually expanded to include many Internet resources. It now contains Gopher servers, it allows telnet connections, and it provides users with full access to all Web servers.
Lynx is a full-featured web browser, but has limited display capabilities.
To execute Lynx, type lynx at the command prompt. If you are using UNIX, and you pick any old file in one of your directories and type lynx mufile at the UNIX prompt, Lynx will execute with your file as the default opening file. You may do this as long as you know the URL of that page. You will be prompted for filename or URL to open, at which point you would enter the protocol, host, path and or filename. You may want to configure Lynx to execute with the same page all the time.