If you visited the Raspberry Pi foundation’s website yesterday (April 1st), you will have spotted their spoof website redesign featuring a text interface and binary numbering on the menus:
They even had some lovely ASCII art. If you missed it, you can recreate the effect for any site on the web using the Lynx browser.
The Lynx browser is currently the oldest web browser still in use – it dates from 1992 and runs completely in the terminal. Despite it’s old age, it’s still regularly updated and actually works quite well. For sites with lots of text and forms Lynx is all you really need, and if you have limited access to the web where you work you can SSH into your Pi and browse the web remotely, all from the terminal.
Usage:
sudo apt-get install lynx
then just type:
lynx http://raspberrypi.org
to visit the site of your choice! – the newly launched redesign of the Raspberry Pi website looks like this:
enjoy!