Kudos to Slashdot

[Duane Attaway]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Leo J Mauler wrote:

> However, I plug into http://slashdot.org/, and lo and behold, Slashdot
> degrades gracefully into a pleasant Lynx browsing experience.  It isn't

Slashdot used to look very cool in the lynx browser.  The sidebar was
ascii formatted in such a way, it showed a pretty picture of a flame.  
There were other pleasant surprises too.  Normal graphical browsers
couldn't see it!

I just tried it and unfortunately, it appears that idea was lost.