Text only websites

By Sijmen J. Mulder

This is a directory of text-only and other very light websites. I appreciate these
sites because they load quickly, scroll smoothly, spare my battery, are more
compact, and lack the usual nonsense that infects many websites.

News

NPR

CNN

Readspike "Simple news aggregator"

The Christian Science Monitor

NOS (Dutch)

Legible News

JimmyR (aggregator)

POST Online Media

SVT Text (Swedish teletext service)

Technology

Hacker News

RFC index

Blogs & Personal

Armin Ronacher (mostly Rust)

Maciej Cegłowski (talks on various topics, not quite text only)

Erland Sommarskog (mostly SQL)

Gwern Branwen (various topics)

Hugo Tunius (programming)

Cosma's Home Page

Fefes Blog (German)

Tobias Girstmair, blog (hardware & software hacker)

Misc

wttr (weather)

Science Hobbyist (90s design warning!)

Usenet Archives by Norman Yarvin

Gopherpedia (Gopher gateway)