[Coco] Coco on the internet

[Arthur Flexser]

P.S.  Since I still have access to Lynx, I just tried it ot of
curiosity.  It locked up when I tried to access a couple of random
sites (Google, Yahoo).  I suspect not many sites support Lynx
nowadays.

Art

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> You can do it in text-only mode by using the CoCo to log in to a
> machine that can run Lynx.  There was a short period of time in the
> early days of the internet when I used this as my primary method of
> accessing the web, via my university's mainframe with my CoCo set up
> to emulate a VT-100 terminal.
>
> Lots of sites didn't work very well in text-only mode--got very used
> to a certain assortment of error messages--but it worked pretty nicely
> with search engines.
>
> Art
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>> First, is it possible for Coco to surf the internet, and second, what does
>> it take
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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