Now, with the Web's multiple protocol capabilities and a standardized URL addressing scheme, Lynx users have access to almost every source of information available on the Internet. The World-Wide Web is expanding at a rate of nearly 300,000 percent annually, by one estimate. Penn's home page has connections to many local Web services and a variety of hot links to services on the Internet. PennInfo, School, and departmental resources are available here as well. Penn's Gopher server has connections to sites around the University, such as the English Department Gopher, and around the world, with links to indices of Gopher servers on every continent.
Lynx can reach any host on the Internet using a telnet address.
Lynx history Lynx is a success story in free software development, and perhaps a model for future development on the Internet. Like many packages in the public domain, Lynx was originally a small project for a group of computer programmers who noticed a local need for a particular tool. When Lynx 2.2 was released in February, it was heralded in a number of print magazines, including PC Week and Online Magazine. Only three months later, Lynx 2.3 tackled the security holes and bugs that had just been fixed by its high-profile counterpart, Mosaic. Still, Lynx remains a relatively small project compared to Mosaic and most commercial products.