Hyperlinked Text
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
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.
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!)