OTOH, you could browse the web with Lynx just fine in 2004, post into Slashdot, read most of tech sites seamlessly and even by 2011 you could download full albu

OTOH, you could browse the web with Lynx just fine in 2004, post into Slashdot, read most of tech sites seamlessly and even by 2011 you could download full albums from Jamendo/Magnatune and the like. Nowadays you need a Core Duo as a bare minimum for JS ridden sites in order to read something if Lynx/Linsk doesn't work with a fake UA like the PSP one in order to enforce the basic article mode for some overused CMS.