Hyperlinked Text

By Sijmen J. Mulder

This is a directory of websites that primarily stick with simple, marked up, hyperlinked text. 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 Lite
• CBC Lite
• NOS lite (Dutch)
• Legible News
• 64k.news

Social

• rawtext.club – “Resist the dazzling spectacle”
• midnight (“networked writing” platform)
• Smol Pub, tiny blogging service (gemini://, gopher://)

Technology

• info.cern.ch – home of the first website
• RFC index
• Connected, an internet encyclopedia.
• Bear Blog, text-first blogging platform
• Mataroa blog, another text-first blogging platform
• Practical UNIX Manuals, on mdoc and history
• The Unix Heritage Society

Misc

• Gopher portal (alternative web protocol)
• Quux, another Gopher server, also on the web
• Gemini portal (alternative web protocol)
• Gopherpedia (Gopher interface to Wikipedia)
• Usenet Archives by Norman Yarvin
• every.sdf.org, a collection of plain-text files
• Wiby, a search engine for these kinds of sites
• Text Mode Google Directions
• Plain Text Sports

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!
• Ploum by Lional Dricot, author of offpunk
• Sebastián “Hoagie” Monía

Please send me suggestions on ik@sjmulder.nl.

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Honorable mentions

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

News

• SVT Text (Swedish teletext service)
• ARD Teletext (German)

Social

• Subreply (social network)
• Lobsters
• Blue Dwarf, “social media for the small web”
• tilde.club, an index of the "tilde-verse"
• tildeverse.org, another

Technology

• Hacker News
• SourceHut (git, mailing lists, etc)
• archive.today (web archiving)
• Pinboard, “social bookmarking for introverts”
• Low Tech Magazine (hosted on a solar-powered Pi)

Misc

• Web 0.5 (only for text browsers!)
• Project Gutenberg Australia
• Textfiles
• McMaster (parts shop)
• wttr (weather)
• Electronic Music Calendars
• Unscambler, word game tools

Oddball

• ”The Best Page in the Universe”
• Science Hobbyist (90s design warning!)
• Christian Remnant Now (also about Unix)

Blogs & Personal

• Engineering Blogs, a curated collection
• 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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