Some Lite Websites

A SEINFELD SUCKS! page that I restored

An Arcade Fire Stole My Basketball! page that I archived (read all the comment too. This is great)

Size results were determined by using Chrome Dev Tools. I disable cache and list the bytes transferred.

Weather

• https://wttr.in/ - ASCII Weather - (134kb)
• https://weather.maniac.com/ - Interface For weather.gov - (27kb)
• https://forecast.weather.gov - The National Weather (1.24MB)

Search & Directories

• http://goosh.org/ - Unix shell like interface for Google - (69kb)
• https://search.marginalia.nu/ - Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content - (15kb)
• https://frogfind.com/- DuckDuckGo for Vintage Computers - (3.3kB)
• https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite?q= - Lite version of DuckDuckGo - (17kB)
• https://wiby.me/orhttps://wiby.org/ - Search engine that focuses on non-commercial, simple webpages - (16.4kB)
• https://xo.wtf/ - SearXNG is a metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users - (49kb)
• https://www.textise.net/ - Removes everything from a web page except for its text - (487kB)
• SearchTweaks: Tools and utilities to make search better.
• Directories
• https://curlie.org/ - Curlie strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web. - (1.7MB)
• https://indieseek.xyz/ - A human edited, Indieweb directory (256kb)
• https://directory.joejenett.com/ - A vehicle for exploring the independent and noncommercial web. ARCHIVES
• https://ooh.directory/ - ooh.directory is a place to find good blogs that interest you. (87.66kb)
• Last Archive of dir.yahoo.com
• Last Archive of dmoz.org

News

• https://text.npr.org/- NPR News (2.9kB)
• https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news?sort=latest- CBC (330kB)
• https://lite.cnn.com/ -CNN (32.8kB)
• https://neuters.de/ -Reuters (1.5kB)
• http://68k.news/- Google News for Vintage Computers - seems to be broken at the moment(22.2kB)
• https://fossphones.com/news.html - FOSS Phone News (3kB)
• https://gopherpedia.com/- Wikipedia. Not news, but awesome (23.2kB)
• https://text.hrw.org/- Human rights watch (13.5kB)
• https://harvardlawreview.org/- (ublock_170kB - w/o 551kB)
• https://currentevents.email/- Wikipedia’s current events, delivered daily (4.5kb)
• https://www.skinnyguardian.xyz/- Skinny Guardian (261kb)
• news.tatooine.club : Txt version of Beatroot News
• NHK-World News:TXT Only headlines in english (165kb)
• https://freedom.press/news/ - Stay up to date on government secrecy, surveillance, and the rights of reporters and whistleblowers. (912kb)
• News & info about search engines, databases, social media and more (546kb)
• https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/(679kb)

News (Only Light with an adblocker :p )

!! When testing I used UBlocks advanced user mode. I block pretty much everything manually !!

(*) Blocked all URLs with UBlock

(**) Blocked all URLs, Large Media Elements, Cosmetic Filtering, Fonts, and JS with UBLock

• Christian Science Monitor : Text Edition- large amount of js and trackers etc. Use UBlock ( (*) 174kB - w/o 1.7MB)
• Post Online Media: Lite Edition- The main page is simple, but once you click on the articles there are a ton of ads and trackers. Going from 14kb to 700kb ( (*)14.3kB)
• PBS: Lite Edition- News links specifically open up to the main PBS website. The Main website is huge 5+MB. You can use it to browse other PBS stuff fine.( (*)25.6kB)
• Daily Mail: Text Edition- This site loads a shit load of crap in the backround ( (*) 1.2MB - w/o Doesn't stop loading)
• Phil Gyford’s dailyedition of- The Guardian( (*) - w/o 4.5MB)
• Associated Press( (**) 243kb-1MB Depending on how far down you scroll - w/o Wont stop loading
• Unredacted.com( (**) 134kb - w/o 4.5MB)
• NS Archive( (**) 474kb - w/o just keeps loading)
• Propublica( (**) 379kb - w/o 2.4MB)

Cooking

• https://dotnom.com/(375kB)
• https://based.cooking/(30.1kB)
• https://korayer.de/recipes/(1.3kB)
• https://every.sdf.org/US_ASCII/Comestibles/recipes/(885 bytes)
• https://www.mrbreakfast.com/(ublock_484kB - 683kB)
• https://vegan-recipes.org/
• http://textfiles.com/food/
• http://nomilk.com/

Tech

• Alterslash(53.5kB - 60.8kB) — the unofficialSlashdot (ublock_43.4kB - 2.1MB) digest
• Hckr News (129kB - 142kB)— a condensed version of Hacker News (11.2kB)
• HackerWeb (21.8kB - 29kB) — a more accessible version ofHacker News (11.2kB)
• Lobsters— computing topics — centered around link collection and discussion (41.7kB)
• Cyber Report—cyber security news in text format (1.4MB)
• https://tildes.net/(222kB)
• https://privacytests.org/(200kB)
• https://lwn.net/(40kB)
• https://www.cpu-world.com/cpu_news/index.html (Use Ublock _ 1.23MB)
• Articles (occasional rants) and tutorials about open source, BSD and GNU/Linux system administration, and programming (45.8kb)

Sports

• https://plaintextsports.com/(7.4kB)
• Plain-TextSports
  → MLB | MLS | NBA | NFL | NHL
  → EPL | NWSL | WNBA
• http://www.espn.com/nba/lite/scoreboard(37.2kB)
• https://wirelessfootball.co.uk/

Discover Blogs and some old txt files

• http://textfiles.com/(21.6kB)(http)
• https://yarchive.net/ - Usenet Archives (2.9kB)
• bearblog.dev
• https://every.sdf.org/(3.4kB)
• http://tilde.town/(77.4kB)
• https://tilde.club/(38.1kB)
• https://smol.pub/feed(12kB)
• https://tildeverse.org/(60.1kB)
• https://href.cool/
• subreply.com (59.6kB)
• https://mataroa.blog/(7kB)
• https://www.greaterwrong.com/- Front end to 260 kb compared to lesswrong which is huge. Lesswrong is a community blog devoted to refining the art of rationality.
• https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html - Timeline of the human condition (ublock_884kB - 991kB)
• https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
• https://awesomelists.top/#/ - All those git awesome lists (823kb)
• https://webring.xxiivv.com/ - List of hand-crafted wikis and portfolios.
• http://amasci.com/- Science Hobbyist. Use UBlock, good website but keeps loading shit in the backround.
• https://kidl.at – Some Satire Website ...its txt only though, so it's here(5.8kB)
• https://technologizer.com/home/(85.8kB - 534kB)
• https://cheapskatesguide.org/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SpartanWeb/
• https://ploum.net/software.html - by Lional Dricot, author of   offpunk
• https://sadgrl.online/cyberspace/surf-the-web.html
• https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
• http://ubu.com/

Other

• Those clubs
• https://alistapart.com/article/5k/ | The OG??
• https://250kb.club/
• https://512kb.club/
• https://1mb.club/
• https://no-js.club/members/
• https://xclub.club/

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia Current Events Portal- Current events summaries from Wikipedia (229kb)
• LegibleNews— News from Wikipedia in an easy-to-read format(Global)(84kb)
• https://legiblenews.com/speed
• Mobile Wikipedia— mobile web version of Wikipedia (256kb)
• News As Facts— concise world news. Wikipedia (287kb)

News Aggregators

• https://skimfeed.com/news.html- skimfeed news
• http://daywreckers.com/
• https://brutalist.report/
• https://www.slowernews.com/- curated news extracting relevant trends and some edge cases for borderline nerds
• Readspike — More news headlines condensed
• https://freshnews.org/
• https://aldaily.com/
• https://newsasfacts.com/
• https://engineeringblogs.xyz/
• https://www.zaqs.org/home.html
• https://www.drudgereport.com/
• https://techurls.com/
• https://biztoc.com/light
• http://www.jimmyr.com/
• https://www.axios.com/
• https://upstract.com/
• https://www.nytimes.com/timeswire- Continuous stream of the latest articles published on NYTimes.com. Clicking on a link will lead to the original nyt website.(1.8MB) Use UBlock
• https://www.metafilter.com/Community Aggregator like HN. Use UBlock

Tools for Converting Webpages to Text

• Txtify.it - Converts web pages into plain text
• https://www.textise.net/
• TextOnly - Simplifies websites into a text-only format
• https://www.textise.net/
• https://earthly-tools.com
• LibReddit — a lightweight Reddit hosted byPussTheCat
• Scribe — a lightweight and minimalist interface for Medium
• Nitter — a lightweight and minimalist interface for Twitter
• https://github.com/acidus99/NewsWaffle

Admin, Unix, Linux, BSD etc....

• linuxcommandlibrary.com (152kb)
• pdfshelter.com/ (Use Ublock _ 945kb)
• manpages.bsd.lv. This book is structured first as a series of tutorials, then a guide to best practises: it is not a reference!(9kb)
• vim.rtorr.com. Vim Cheat Sheet (165kb)
• cli.club. A collection of the best CLI/Ncurses software (17kb)
• cpu-world.com Everything CPU (Use Ublock_ 1.5MB)
• happynetbox.com. Happy Net Box is an experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER. (16kb)
• localnotes.pageSometimes you just need to write stuff down, this could be that place (less than 1kb)
• https://notepad.mx/simple web-based application for people to write and store notes securely online. (77kb)
• https://freeunitconverter.online/
• myipaddress.ru
• https://istheinternetdown.com/
• http://ipcalf.com/
• https://gdir.telae.net/- Text based Google directions
• https://evanw.github.io/float-toy/
• https://httpguides.com/
• https://apps.moire.org/httpstatus/
• https://yiufung.net/post/emacs-key-binding-conventions-and-why-you-should-try-it/
• https://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Topics/index.htm(7.1kB)
• https://www.freesoft.org/CIE/
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index-100a.html(7.4kB)
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/
• https://www.tuhs.org/- The unix historical society (146kB)
• https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services?tab=readme-ov-file
• https://batteryuniversity.com/articles(Good website, but use ublock)
• https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt

Games & Game Rules

• https://www.chessvariants.com/ - Discover and Play Various Games Similar to Chess
• https://lichess.org/
• https://freesolitaire.win/
• https://e-ink.club/ - Apps and Games for E-Ink devices
• https://www.unscramblerer.com/
• https://www.pagat.com/ - An awesome website of card game rules