Web 1.0 Revival

I have same problem, i really really would like to go back web 1.0, just text with minimal design and max pictures. living in this JS heavy world and using http and html for something it was never intended to be used is silly.

Why is everyone trying to turn webpages into things other than webpages? What was wrong with text, links, and scrollbars?

this is another layer of abstraction on top of an already broken system. you're running html through an llm to get markdown that gets rendered in a terminal browser. that's like... three format conversions just to read text. the original web had simple html that was readable in any terminal browser already. now they arent designed as documents anymore but rather designed as applications that happen to deliver some content as a side effect

What about the "entitlement" of the web developer who tries to dictate what client (user-agent) may use to retrieve public information. Some users like me have very low requirements for websites. All I need is the text. It takes minimal effort to satisfy those users, much less than using a Javascipt app framework.

Yes! Please standardize the web into simple hypertext so “LLMs can use it”. I promise I won’t build any tools to read it without the ads, tracking, and JavaScript client side garbage myself. I will not partake in any such efforts to surf the web as it was intended be, before its commercialization and commodification. No, sir, I could never!

Because today's web are full of walled gardens, and most content are going mobile , in streaming, and SPA rendered, which is no longer plain text based.

we must be after different things. the web is for the content. I decide how my view of it appears.this has always been the case html provides __suggestions__ css and what not let me interpret those suggestions as I will.If you want to curate your design experience put it in a pdf for your fanbase and leave my day to day browsing out of it.

It's basically just the World Wide Web, minus images or scripting.

I get every webpage as text-onlyI can reformat webpages into formatted text exactly the way I want it; I can save the important bits into an SQL database (I like the text-only output of sqlite3)I do not use a popular, so-called "modern" browser; no graphics, no automatic sourcing of resources (files), no css, no javascriptI cannot understand why HN commenters believe that text-only is up to the web developer (whereupon the web user must look for aesthetcially-pleasing websites

"Some people claimed that websites without CSS and JavaScript are "bland". Who cares? If your content is readable and accessible without the noisy bells and whistles of loading animations and a fancy-pants design, then ship it.Someone else said HTML-only websites are "ugly as hell." I disagree. They're beautiful."Is the www an information system for hyperlinking and sharing information over an internet or is it something else. Is the www the software pro