In Ubuntu, you can also surf the Internet or view website in command line terminal. The great browser for command line terminal is Lynx. Lynx package is not install by default. Installing lynx package in Ubuntu is very easy using apt package management system if you already have an Internet connection.

Here is an example on how to install lynx with apt-get:

luzar@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install lynx
[sudo] password for luzar:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for luzar:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lynx
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 1168kB of archives.
After this operation, 4997kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main lynx 2.8.6-2ubuntu2 [1168kB]
Fetched 1168kB in 1min39s (11.8kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package lynx.
(Reading database ... 18984 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking lynx (from .../lynx_2.8.6-2ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up lynx (2.8.6-2ubuntu2) ...

Now that lynx is successfully installed in our system, let's try open a website:

luzar@ubuntu:~$ lynx  -accept_all_cookies http://www.google.com

In the example above, the option -accept_all_cookies will always accept cookies from website we are going to open. We use this option just avoid answering the question lynx will ask later. Certain web server need us to accept cookies before allowing us to view the website.

There are more options that you use with lynx web browser. Here is some options from lynx manual page:

       -accept_all_cookies
              accept all cookies.

       -anonymous
              apply restrictions for anonymous account, see also -restrictions.

       -assume_charset=MIMEname
              charset for documents that donât specify it.

       -assume_local_charset=MIMEname
              charset assumed for local files, i.e., files which  lynx  creates  such  as  internal
              pages for the options menu.

       -assume_unrec_charset=MIMEname
              use this instead of unrecognized charsets.

       -auth=ID:PASSWD
              set  authorization  ID  and  password for protected documents at startup.  Be 
              sure to protect any script files which use this switch.

       -base  
             prepend a request URL comment and BASE tag to text/html outputs for -source 
             dumps.

       -bibp=URL
              specify a local bibp server (default http://bibhost/).

       -blink 
             forces high intensity background colors for color mode, if available and 
             supported by the  terminal.   This applies to the slang library 
             (for a few terminal emulators), or to OS/2 EMX with ncurses.

       -book  
            use the bookmark page as the startfile.  The default or  command  line
            startfile  is still  set  for  the  Main  screen  command, and will be used
            if the bookmark page is unavailable or blank.

       -buried_news
              toggles scanning of news articles for buried references, and converts them to 
              news links.  Not  recommended  because email addresses enclosed in angle
              brackets will be converted to false news links, and unencoded messages
              can be trashed.

       -cache=NUMBER
              set the NUMBER of documents cached in memory.  The default is 10.

       -case  
              enable case-sensitive string searching.

       -center
              Toggle center alignment in HTML TABLE.

       -cfg=FILENAME
              specifies a Lynx configuration file other than the default lynx.cfg.

       -child exit on left-arrow in startfile, and disable save to disk.

The lynx usage menu is available at the bottom of lynx browser. See an example picture below:

Lynx will preview one page at a time. If you are viewing a large page, press space bar to view next page. You can also use Up and Down key to move the cursor but only to the next link. For example, when you press down key, it will move to the next link available in the page.

The left and right arrow key has a function too. The right key will open or follow a link. You can go back to previous page with left key. That's easy, isn't it? Ok, if you feel dizzy already with my explanation, press q and enter to quit lynx.