Other VT100 clients are available in addition to Lynx. The original line-mode client produced at CERN in Switzerland can be reached with telnet to info.cern.ch. Moving about in this original client is actually a bit easier than Lynx, since each hypertext link is identified with a number. However, it does not support jumping directly to other URLs. Development of veronica and jughead as indexes to gopherspace was a major advance in the use of gopher.
Several options exist, although none seem to derive names from comic strips.
As with veronica and jughead, it is still rather quick and dirty indexing, but it provides some level of greater access to the thousands of resources available on Web servers around the globe. Wide Web realm if your connection is VT100-based. Lynx and the other VT100 WWW clients can reach many corners of cyberspace and, depending on the connections, they may even be faster than Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic on the Macintosh. Online Inc. All rights reserved.