Comment by quickthrower2
6 years ago
> I am now prepared for 6 comments replying to me saying that anything that can be implemented with HTML from 1999 should be, and a list of search results can be.
They would be correct replies!
In addition there is this concept called "graceful degradation", where if the browser has more advanced features, you support them, otherwise you work anyway. It's not like supporting Lynx means you can't have a map in the search results when using Chrome. Certainly not for a company with the resources of Google.
Also they should probably send something like a Lynx-version of Google down to people with a poor internet connection.
They probably are hiring only the best machine learning, cloud-native engineers fresh out of university who have never heard of lynx and now the institution doesn’t even realize it broke support for it.