If text you want, go ahead and use Lynx. Please stop whinging.

I know that multimedia features and animation are often abused in irritating ways on the web.

However, if the development of web technology were left up to a load of grumpy old men complaining about the very idea that people might be allowed to make anything pretty then life would be rather sadder.

I hope that this endeavour is successful. There isn't yet a very good option for doing 3d graphics on web pages.