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 No. 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).