During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website • Hacker News Board

Re: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

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Post by bienstar » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 5:39 PM UTC

hackerbeat wrote: post #170

Talking about text-first sites: https://wordgag.com brings me a lot of joy everyday. They also update their funny quotes collection regularly.

That site prompted me to watch an ad in order to access it; I don't think it's a great example of what we're talking about

Re: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

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Post by arianvanp » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 11:12 PM UTC

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #123

arianvanp wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the Netherlands the public broadcaster still publishes news through Teletekst: https://tweakers.net/reviews/11700/hoe-werkt-het-vernieuwde-...

Which is cool but it's not web, and few people have working TV reception that supports it at the moment. The web version of Teletekst ( https://nos.nl/teletekst ) is over 3 MB in size.

It's better than web! You don't usually view it with Internet. You view it with either an antenna or with broadcast cable. It's up even when the Internet is down.

Re: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

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Post by paulcapewell » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 3:34 PM UTC

Fnoord wrote: post #152

treesknees wrote: post #2

Several news sites offer text only versions. https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr.org/ https://wttr.in/ More listed at https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites It’d be great if there was some standard that allowed these to be easily found, and supported on the local news sites.

$ ssh teletekst.nl

oh my god.