• As you age, even without a psychopathology background one will learn people are delicate, madness is a gradient, and some people break in ways you won't understand. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40683190

• https://rosso.tripod.com/seinfeld.html- The original Seinfeld page you see on my homepage. This site is full of scripts that wont stop loading
• https://people.well.com/user/cynsa/- I think this website dates back to 93. Plus it has a page featuring xrays of people that put stuff in their butts
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/low/front_page/default.stm- BBC On This Day (old)
• ”The Best Page in the Universe”
• https://www.pushtokindle.com/#pricing
• https://mbasic.facebook.com - Lightweight version of Facebook. If you want it

Dead or not working atm

Sources Used for this websites homepage

• https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html
• https://www.are.na/elliott-cost/text-only-websites
• https://slhomme.com/_blog/A-list-of-cool-text-only-webistes.html
• http://greatlinks.great-site.net/index.html?i=1
• http://daywreckers.com/
  
• https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2021/09/15/text-only-websites/
• https://eink.link/
• https://www.leanternet.com/
• https://www.leanternet.com/index.html
• https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/
• https://blog.wturrell.co.uk/text-only-news-websites/
• https://github.com/localjo/awesome-text-only-news
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313232
• https://github.com/localjo/awesome-text-only-news?tab=readme-ov-file
• https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/comments/13w4wjn/textbased_news_sites_for_dumbphone_browsers/
• https://www.friendlyskies.net/fmk/index.php?tpl=Links-Text-Only-Websites.html
• https://every.sdf.org/HTML/websites/
• https://www.metafilter.com/204195/Just-the-facts-maam-man
• https://irosyadi.gitbook.io/irosyadi/webapp/spartan-text-only-web
• https://korayer.de/
• https://gdir.telae.net/links.html
• https://plaintextworld.com/

Other Language | Lite Websites

• https://radiocanadamini.ca/- Radio-Canada’s low-bandwidth news site in French
• https://texttv.nu/
• https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttv1.exe/110
• https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv
• https://teletext.orf.at/
• https://text.orf.at/channel/orf1/page/100/1.html
• https://noslite.nl/
• https://www.ard-text.de/mobil/
• SVT Text(Swedish teletext service)
• ARD Teletext(German)

Those fucking websites

• https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
• http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
• https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
• https://evenbettermotherfucking.website/
• https://justinjackson.ca/words.html

Tools for making your own txt website

• http://ascii.designforthe.net/
• https://github.com/sindresorhus/emoj - Find a relevent emoji from the cli
• https://adelfaure.net/tools/jgs/ - ASCII Art Font
• http://www.ascii-art.de/
• https://velvetyne.fr/news/about-ascii-art-and-jgs-font/#- ASCII Art Font
• https://odie.us/
• https://victorzhou.com/blog/minify-svgs/
• https://ascii.today/
• https://john-doe.neocities.org/
• https://baltuta.eu/posts/css-only-dark-mode

Archive Tools

• https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack
• https://archivebox.io/

I'll get to it later

• https://www.kevinmccorrytv.ca/flintston.html(2.2MB)
• https://dontevenreply.com/
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y5AMSi3Q7JuyNmghJSBV6GhEBLAsdCfKTRoWzrc-8xE/htmlview
• https://plaintextproject.online/links.html
• https://github.com/captn3m0/plaintext-everything?tab=readme-ov-file
• https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/21/off-the-menu/#universally-loathed
• https://kiwix.org/en/about-us/

Some Random Stuff

When I started doing this, I found my sources, copied everything from them, emailed them to myself, and then went through them when I got the time. These are all the links that were left. Normally I would delete this but I decided to randomly stick it here for the hell of it.

• https://www.thisdaysportion.com/posts/
• https://wordsandbuttons.online/
• https://join1440.com/
• Websites
Service : Self Destruct Websites
Forum : Whirlpool.net Forums
Forum : Crazy Guy on a Bike - A place for bicycle tourists and their journals
Service : Hurricane Electric DNS
Reference : Ycombinator Startup Library
Reference : RefDesk.com
Reference : Cars101 - Subaru research and information website
Reference : GOV.uk
Reference : Mobile Wikipedia
Reference : Health A to Z
Blog : Paul Graham Essays
Blog : Arts & Letters Daily
Blog : Words and Buttons
Blog : Gwern
Blog : Hugo Tunius
Blog : Kelly Sutton
Blog : Fabrice Bellard
Blog : Peter Norvig
Blog : Sam Altman
Blog : Science Hobbyist
Blog : Alex Dragusin (my blog)
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  pa3fwm.nl
  latka.li
  lite.sharavananpa.dev
  coleroberts.dev
  catherinejue.com
  coryarcangel.com
  storin.nl
  myr.sh
  marcusandre.de
  karl.berlin
  seirdy.one
  minim.blog
  cnx.gdn
  godteeth.com
  jstreet.uk
  anders.unix.se
  maximevaillancourt.com
  t0.vc
  thricegreat.neocities.org
  btxx.org
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• Pinboard - Pinboard is a fast, independently run, no-nonsense bookmarking site for people who value privacy and speed.
• is.gd - Free service for shortening web addresses and other URLs.
• Connected - An internet encyclopedia.
• 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.
• 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.
• Berkshire Hathaway - Berkshire Hathaway Inc official home page.
• Vulfpeck - Vulfpeck official site.
• Danluu - Danluu blog.
• Prof. Dr. Style - Top 10 Web Design Styles of 1993.
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Misc

• Gopher portal (alternative web protocol)
• Quux, another Gopher server, also on the web
• Gemini portal (alternative web protocol)
• Richard Hopp's Unauthorized Historical Biography of the City of Los Angeles

Blogs & Personal

• Maciej Cegłowski (talks on various topics, not quite text only)
• Erland Sommarskog (mostly SQL)
• Cosma's Home Page
• Fefes Blog (German)
• Tobias Girstmair, blog (hardware & software hacker)
• verisimilitudes.net
• Dan Luu
• Nolan Prescott, or “Idle Thoughts” (tech & thinking)
• Programming in the Twenty-First Century
• Jacob Williams
• Jaruzel’s Home of Retro and Other Curios
• Thomas Jost
• Drew DeVault, creator of SourceHut
• Eric Radman (BSD & SQL)
• Avris
• Kaue’s Way of Life (health, wealth, love, meaning)
• Seirdy
• Paulo Daniel Gonzalez (software, Elixir language)
• Jan “netmeister” Schaumann
• Cal Paterson
• Jeremy Sarber (Christian faith)
• Andy’s working notes – not plain HTML but interesting approach
• The Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and the Internet
• George McCandless, minimalism and slow-movement
• minim.blog, existential and digital minimalism.
• dkrefft, minimalist technology, BSD, etc.
• Amin Bandali, GNU, Gopher, also a link list like this one!

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Honorable mentions

Note quite as plain, but lightweight and worth visiting nonetheless!

Social

• Blue Dwarf, “social media for the small web”

Technology

• SourceHut (git, mailing lists, etc)
• archive.today (web archiving)
• Pinboard, “social bookmarking for introverts”

Misc

• Web 0.5 (only for text browsers!)
• Project Gutenberg Australia
• McMaster (parts shop)
• Electronic Music Calendars

Oddball

• Christian Remnant Now (also about Unix)

Blogs & Personal

• Welcome to the Jungle (digital garden created with Hyperdraft)
• Armin Ronacher (mostly Rust)
• Gwern Branwen (various topics)
• Hugo Tunius (programming)
• Stjepan Golemac (JS, React, Node, Rust)
• Julia Evans (tech)
• Wingolog (mostly functional programming)
• Matt Might (medicine and computer science)
• mnmlist
• Neil Panchal – “quantum integrated circuits”!
• ImperialViolet by adam Langley (mostly crypto)
• Andrew Stephens
• Fausto
• Noncombatant (tech, music, more)
• Daring Fireball (predominantly Apple)
• Inessential by Brent Simmons, author of NetNewsWire
• Portable throughts (interesting single-page concept)
• Tom Cooks
• Manuel Moreale
• null program by Chris Wellons
• Greg Hendershott (mostly Racket)
• John R. Marks, IV (created with Zim)
• Patrick Collison
• Hund (Linux, plaintext, minimalism)
• Kidlat
• Rodrigo Ghedin
• Scripting News – “It's even worse than it appears..”
• complete.org by John Goerzen (since 1994!)

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• gutenberg.org - over 60,000 free ebooks digitised and proofread by volunteers
• standardebooks.org/ebooks - copyright-free, well-formatted downloadable ebooks
• f6oclock.com - live feed of rising posts from Reddit (r/politics) (DEAD)
  
• bbc.co.uk/weather - weather forecasts from the BBC

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Web Directories

NeoCities Districts (DEAD)

Tech

Danluu

Emacs Tips (BLOCKED)


Other Blogs and Communities

Cosma’s Home Page

Tools

txti.es – Fast web pages for everybody (create a quick web page) (DEAD)

Other

Prof. Dr. Style – About a well-regarded form of informational website design

Human Universals

Jodi

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp in text (DEAD)


One Mississippi

Dictionary.black

Dictionary.pink




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