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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Just fork elinks

Is there actually any text browser that's still in development (at least recently)?
Always thought it was odd how there aren't any still made. It's not like it's a real waste.