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i guess it's pretty usable if you are stuck in a desert island with a 35 year old computer, a modern ish debian disc and perfect wired access to the internet.
I would totally love to browse a simpler "layer" of the Internet that could be navigated with Lynx! The biggest downside would be lack of images. (Maybe Lynx can do images?)
But I could see an indie web of little blogs and human created artifacts that would be surfed kinda like logging into a MUD. :D