Text-only website are quite useful, especially today.
Web pages are increasingly filled with ads, videos and other bandwidth-heavy content.
Here is a list of text-only, clutter-free news sites:
- CNN Text Only — U.S. news from CNN
- 68k News is a text only version of Google News
- NPR News Text Only — news from National Public Radio (US)
- CBC Low Bandwidth — low bandwidth version of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- F6O’Clock (or the original F5O’Clock) — political news headlines from Reddit
- Post Online — a text-only version of Post Online (UK) — focuses on “global events that impact the US and world economies”
- Christian Science Monitor Text Only — news from Christian Science Monitor
- LegibleNews — news from Wikipedia in an easy-to-read format (Global)
- Lobsters — computing topics — community centered around link collection and discussion
- Skimfeed — a long list of technology headlines
- Readspike — another long list of technology headlines
- Popurls – another news aggregator
- Wikipedia Current Events — current events form Wikipedia
- HackerNews — technology news social site
- HackerWeb — a more accessible version of Hacker News
- Alterslash — the unofficial Slashdot digest
- Mobile Wikipedia — mobile web version of Wikipedia
These are stripped-down sites with minimal images:
Using Your Browser’s Reader Mode
You can also use “Reader Mode” many web browser. This mode strips the page down to text and content-related images. You can read how to enable this mode here.
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https://www.cbc.ca/lite/trending
Low bandwidth version of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Cool – added.
http://68k.news/ is a text only version of google news.
Thanks — ddded.
https://eink.link/ is a text only web page designed for the simple browsers in some ereaders.
How’s about the Bloomfield Information Project at bloomfieldinfo.org?
https://alterslash.org/ is a text only headlines and top comments of slashdot.org that might fit your criteria for tech news.
Music, ahh music when on the treadmill.
However, wouldn’t it be nice to see a txt only, screen scrolling news site that can also have voice-enabled, as an option, for those wanting this type of service when walking on our treadmills.
I thoroughly appreciate the efforts that you’ve made on our behalf with your work here.
Thank you,
VictorD
good
https://lite.cnn.io/en
The lite version of CNN is text-only.
Thanks, I added it.
lite.poandpo.com is a text version of POST Online Media, very nice move from them.
Thanks, I’ll add that site.
amazing list I need it sir for my website thanks so much