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A text-only web browser that was an early workhorse before the web gained its graphical face. It is still used extensively today by the visually impaired, people with limited systems, and those with slow connections who don't want to take the time to load graphics.
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Lynx - John,That's a bad assumption to make. With the advent of SLC's andRT's, a lot of POTS service now relies on local power, which isusually just batteries -- enough to last an 8 hour outage ...johnl@iecc.com (John R. Levine) wrote in messagenews:: My understanding, however, is that during the East Coast power outages of the past few days, they did not (?). My cell phone worked just fine throughout the blackout, but the blackout only lasted five hours here. Cell sites all have battery backup, but the batteries don't last forever. The cell carriers have mobile generators, but they have way more cell sites than they can recharge with the generators they have if there's a widespread blackout that lasts a long time. This was widely reported in the press, e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/16/business/16PHON.html. Cell sites only seem to have batteries good for a few hours; you can reasonably ask if they should have power for longer outages, but it's not true that the cell network just failed. One of the often-overlooked good things about boring old POTS landline telephony is that it's all powered from the central office, so with one big bank of batteries and one large diesel generator, they can keep the phones on indefinitely, at least for the phone lines wired directly to the CO, not via SLCs and other separately powered concentrators.
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