Exploring Text-Only Websites: A Minimalist Approach to Blogging
By
danielfalbo
Crusty in the right places. Worth the chew.
Summary
The article discusses the author's personal experience serving blog posts as plain text files by adding .txt to URLs, creating a minimalist, lo-fi web experience. It explores the concept of text-only websites as an alternative web experience and mentions the freedom of the web to allow new concepts to become normalized through community adoption.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledA couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URL and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative.
Obviously a webpage without links is like a fish without a bicycle, but the joy of the web is that there are no gatekeepers.
People can try new concepts and, if enough people join in, it becomes normal.
I'm not saying the plain-text is the best web experience. But it is an experience.
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