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Light text based web pages, April 7, 2014

# The Text Directory ## General News Aggregators => https://brutalist.report/topic/news? Brutalist Report, Bookmark subsections => https://skimfeed.com/news.html SkimFeed, Many sources Bookmark subsections => https://readspike.com Readspike, A variety of tech news sites

Stuff

• Mbasic Facebook
• text only Google News
• 🇺🇸Cable News Network, HQ in New York
• 🇨🇦 Canada public service bcast
• Text-based version of NPR’s site
• Text intl news from Christian Science Monitor
• UK’s Post Online news in text only
• Text-only news sourced from Creative Commons
• Shortcut to Wikipedia’s current events page
• Easier to read version of Wikipedia news

Text-only technology news

• Text-only techie news
• Text-only version of Hacker News
• Unofficial, text-only version of Slashdot
• More tech news in text only
• Lower bandwidth version of Reddit
• The Guardian’s minimalist is mostly text, a few small images
• NYT’s latest with thumbnails, clicking brings normal article
News from a large number of outlets, but it does have some images
• 🇺🇸 New York Times Wire
• 🇺🇸 Christian Science Monitor Text Only
• 🇺🇸 NPR News Text Only — news from National Public Radio (US)
• 🇺🇸 PBS Lite — U.S. news from the Public Broadcasting Service
• 🇨🇦 CBC Low Bandwidth — low-bandwidth version Canadian Bcast Corp
• 🇨🇦 Radio Canada Minilow-bandwidth version of Radio CanadaNews in French
• 🇬🇧 Minimalist Today’s Guardian
• 🇬🇧 UK Daily Mail Text-Base
• 🇬🇧 Neuters text-only version of the Reuters home page
• 🇬🇧 Post Online text-only Post Onlinefocuses on “global events”

Technology News

• Readspike — More news headlines condensed
• Hckr Newscondensed Hacker News
• HackerWeba more accessible version of Hacker News
• Lobsters brutalist.report computing topics centered on collection and discuss
• Cyber Report— cyber security news in text format
• AlterslashunofficialSlashdotdigest
• 1MB Clubcollection of performance web pages weighing less than 1 megabyte

Lightweight Interfaces To Popular Sites

• LibReddit — a lightweight Reddit hosted by Riverside Rocks
• LibReddit — a lightweight Reddit hosted by Strongthany
• LibReddit —  a lightweight Reddit hosted by PussTheCat
• Teddit — a lightweight interface to Reddit that retains the Reddit-style design
• Invidious — a lightweight and minimalist interface for Youtube
• Nitter — a lightweight and minimalist interface for Twitter
• Scribe — a lightweight and minimalist interface for Medium
• SearXNG — a lightweight alternative to Google Search

Wikipedia-Based News

• LegibleNews — news from Wikipedia in an easy-to-read format (Global)
• Wikipedia Current Events — current events from Wikipedia
• Mobile Wikipediamobile web version of Wikipedia
• Kidlatposts of Creative Commonsstories
• News As Facts — concise world news
• Current EventsWikipedia’s current events, delivered daily

News:

• Text-only version of NPR news site.
• CNN news as plain text formatted for low bandwidth.
• Minimalist curated news page.
• Plain text news focusing on activism.
• Directory of plaintext news resources.

Current Affairs:

• Textfiles archive of ASCII art zines on politics and culture.
• EFF BBS for digital rights news.
• Floodgap gopher server with some political commentary.

Weather News

• Google Weather
• Wttr.in provides text-only weather reports
• National weather service text forecasts and data.
• Raw weather data in text format by FTP.
• Telnet accessible weather data from Weather Underground.
• Rawinsonde weather balloon data in text format.

News:
    www.wirx.org - Minimalist curated news page.
    rupture.news - Plain text news focusing on activism.
    topsites.plaintext.news - Directory of plaintext news resources.
Current Affairs:
    ascii.textfiles.com/archives - Textfiles archive of ASCII art zines on politics and culture.
    telnet bbs.electronicfrontierfoundation.org - EFF BBS for digital rights news.
    gopher.floodgap.com - Floodgap gopher server with some political commentary.

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