Piping curl into a pager

E.g.
$ curl www.google.com | sed '/<[^>]*>/d' | less

Could this be used as the basis for a text-based browser? Curl has POST and cookies support too, and Guile Scheme could be used instead of javascript.

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Then substitute it for the world wide web application of your choice.

I also feel offended that you use #!/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/sh.

To be honest, I've started learning shell script recently, and haven't yet gathered enough experience to develop any sense of elitism between shells.