Miscellaneous Operating Systems/Hardware

I am assuming everybody has read Maciej Cegłowski's talk on web bloat that has been making the rounds on all the tech blogs lately.
http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

I recently ran into Compuntion's excellent site http://www.compunction.org on body mods. Was trying to take care of a hypertrophic scar I'd developed.

Anyways, where are all the good text-based (no js, minimal http, even) sites at? Any ~gasp~ News sites like that?

I mean, useful sites, not just pages saying how great minimal web pages are or other nerd stuff...

You want gopherspace.

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/feeds

great that finally more people seem to be annoyed by how the websites have developed. unfortunately the kind of sites you're looking for is very rare. mostly old sites fit these specs

Damn good article. Absolutely nailed it.

FTA:

"this editor rhapsodizes about exciting misfeatures of the new instant format like tilt-to-pan images, which means if you don't hold your phone steady, the photos will drift around like a Ken Burns documentary."

OMG I busted out laughing when I read that, and I honestly almost never laugh out loud...

ClassicHasClass wrote: You want gopherspace.

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/feeds

Sweet. Been plaing with iGopher. Still trying to make sense of gopherspace, tho. https://appsto.re/us/sCWZC.i

The best way to think of gopher is not like a gimped web but more like a friendlier FTP -- that's how it was designed, in fact -- with a very strong menu-document hierarchy. Documents and terminal nodes != menus, although some documents can be encoded in them, and menus are not in general documents and certainly not terminal nodes.

Bryan Lunduke's take on the Website Obesity Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tefielQeHZY

(I'm digging out this thread to append because I can't find my own one on this topic I started some time ago)