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A small collection of text-only websites

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Re: A small collection of text-only websites

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In some web apps I code, I just serialize the view-model when the page is called with a ".json" or ".yaml" at the end. It forces you to be strict about not leaking private/complex data into the views and makes power-users' life much easier.

".txt" is also a good idea for content-heavy pages. Maybe ".md" too? I may try.

Re: A small collection of text-only websites

#6
Offering a plain text version of your website may seem like a novel idea nowadays but I remember a time when pretty much every web page had a printer-friendly version with little to no formatting. I suppose printing web pages has become passé, that is unless you're printing a food recipe.

Thanks for putting together this list, it would be nice to add a short summary next to each link.

Re: A small collection of text-only websites

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What column width - don't tell me these plain text gurus use one long line per paragraph? Are Unicode emojis valid? What about a TUI using Unicode box drawing? Or ASCII characters? 7-bit ASCII only for the entire blog? Is there a way to handle input (a telnet connection?)?

We've hardly scratched the surface here.

(Now I want to make a TUI site.)

Re: A small collection of text-only websites

#10
I didn't know about the .text extension for Daring Fireball: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/31/photoshop-1-and...

Interesting to see how the original creator of Markdown uses it.

I'm presuming that's the version he edits and not output automatically converted from an intermediary representation.

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