Text-Only CNN | WingNews

jrnichols|5 years ago

Wow, it's amazing how lite & fast web sites can be when they're not loaded down with images and advertisements and tracking cookies! Who would have ever imagined?

sarcasm definitely intended.

this is how I wish the web would be again.

1vuio0pswjnm7|5 years ago

This is how the web is for me all the time. I use a text-only browser plus some DNS tricks. Fast and reliable.

Evidlo|5 years ago

Here's a compilation of other lightweight news websites as well as other services.

https://github.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites#news

wenc|5 years ago

NPR has one too

https://text.npr.org

pie_flavor|5 years ago

Now, what'd make this actually useful is if it either used the same pathing or auto-redirected accordingly, so I could just replace 'www' with 'lite' in a URL, since I only ever visit CNN when I'm being linked there, and visiting the normal website causes my browser to hang.

schwartzworld|5 years ago

Like old.reddit.com

zevv|5 years ago

I've been using this for years and years on my Nokia E71. Back in the days, a lot of sites had a dedicated mobile page, typically reachable on on the http://m.<domain> URL.

singhrac|5 years ago

I read the title and thought CNN stood for convnet, and thought - didn't we see these in 2014?

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