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Text-only websites

Today’s websites have become bloated and slow. Text-only websites are incredibly useful when networks are slower and bandwidth is at a premium. They load much faster, don’t contain any pop-ups or ads or autoplay videos, and help people with low bandwidth or limited Internet access. Here is a curated collection of text-only/low-bandwidth and performance-focused websites from across the Internet.

• World Wide Web — The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.
• Hacker News — Technology news community centered around link aggregation and discussion.
• Low Tech Magazine — This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline.
• Pinboard — Pinboard is a fast, independently run, no-nonsense bookmarking site for people who value privacy and speed.
• NPR — National Public Radio text-only version.
• CNN — CNN lite version.
• Usenet Archives — Usenet Archives collected by Norman Yarvin.
• Algemeen nieuws — NOS lite.
• RFC Index — RFC Index.
• Wiby — Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest.
• Goosh — Google command line.
• CBC Lite — Lite version of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
• Teddit — A lightweight Reddit.
• Post Online — A text-only version of Post Online.
• Lobste.rs — Lobsters is a computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion, launched on July 3rd, 2012.
• Skimfeed — Technology headlines.
• Mataroa blog — Naked blogging platform, for minimalists. Just write.
• Popurls — Mother of news aggregators.
• Readspike — Simple news aggregator.
• Alterslash — The unofficial Slashdot digest.
• is.gd — Free service for shortening web addresses and other URLs.
• Connected — An internet encyclopedia.
• Manpages — Practical UNIX manuals.
• Bear Blog — A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform.
• JimmyR — JimmyR is a mashup of the best sites on the internet integrated into one page.
• Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher — Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher.
• LIES — LIES is a journal spearheaded by a queer feminist collective based in multiple cities.
• XXIIVV webring — List of hand-crafted wikis and portfolios.
• San Jose Scrabble(r) Club №21 — Three-Letter Word List. Includes all 3-letter words acceptable in U.S. Club and Tournament Play as of 2009.
• MARC — Mailing list ARChives.
• Human Universals — Human Universals compiled by Donald E. Brown as published in The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, 2002, New York: Viking Press.
• The List — This is a WWW version of Steve Koepke’s excellent (San Francisco) Bay Area concert guide.
• txti — Txti is fast web pages for everybody. With txti, anyone can use any device to share their story.
• Berkshire Hathaway — Berkshire Hathaway Inc official home page.
• Vulfpeck — Vulfpeck official site.
• wttr.in — Weather.
• DuckDuckGo Lite — DuckDuckGo Lite.
• Tilde Town — A community that exists on a linux server.
• Daywreckers — Interesting link list.
• Danluu — Danluu blog.
• Gwern — Gwern Branwen blog about psychology, statistics, and technology.
• IPCalf — Get your IP address.
• Odie — Odie makes a webpage with the content of a published google doc.
• Prof. Dr. Style — Top 10 Web Design Styles of 1993.
• Ascii — Ascii design.

Feel free to send me suggestions on twitter (@ronaldsvilcins).

Originally published at https://ronaldsvilcins.com on September 15, 2021.