A small collection of text-only websites
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A small collection of text-only websites
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#2Interesting. I've implemented naked CSS on my blog, which isn't quite the same:
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#3Very interesting
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#4Honorable mention: https://text.npr.org/
Not technically plaintext (in the MIME type sense), but still very lightweight, especially when compared to other news sites.
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#5In 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.
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#6Offering 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.
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#7berkshirehathaway.com is a great text-only site, containing troves of buffett's letters with much wisdom. though the actual text mostly end up in pdf formats.
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#8Also there is gemini (real, not google's stolen name thing) and gopher. Gemini renders great on Cell Phones.
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#9What 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.)
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#10I 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.