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> Someone, somewhere still uses these browsers for various reasons

I am interested to know (pure curiosity) what those reasons are for those folks. I can only think of a few using my imagination (locked down OS in a hospital, crusty old server filling a vital need with no funds to upgrade or maintain), but I bet these edge cases would make for some thoughtful reading. (Perhaps for a separate HN post?)

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Perhaps they are annoyed at the attack surface bloat of modern browsers and operating systems. I've been thinking of switching to w3m/links/elinks/lynx.

Right, but if you're worried about security, using a browser that's no longer maintained isn't the answer, so doesn't explain old versions of graphical browsers.

This article is about pre-rendering a webpage to png, so anyone using a text-based browser would actually find the result even less useful than the original page.

Some people don't have a lot of money and try to make things last as long as they can before they have to spend more money. There are a lot of folks out there who will say "I spent a lot of money on this danged machine 15 or 20 years ago, and it still works perfectly fine, why should I have to replace it?".

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