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title: Low-bandwidth links
date: 2026-03-31
author: Scott Wells
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This is an adaptation of the low-bandwidth links page I had on 
txti.es. So I\'m likely to use this when in an emergency or on 
a train; you\'re welcome to use it, too. Washington, D.C. is 
the default. It's also a link garden.

I will slowly migrate some of my surviving pre-2000 webpages 
here, too. \~wells

## News

-   [CNN](https://lite.cnn.com/)
-   [NPR](https://text.npr.org/)
-   [CBC Editors Picks](https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news?sort=editors-picks)
-   [Christian Science Monitor](https://www.csmonitor.com/text_edition)

### Intentionally Low-Fi News

-   [Legible News](https://legiblenews.com/) (drawn from Wikipedia)
-   [Slower News](https://www.slowernews.com/) (seminannual now)

## Reference

-   [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
-   [Duck Duck Go smallest version](https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite)
-   [Wilby](https://wiby.me/) (Search for \"classic\" websites)
-   [FrogFind](http://frogfind.com/) (Search engine that simplifies websites for old computers)

## Weather

-   [Graphical weather information for the United States](https://graphical.weather.gov/)
-   [Seven day forcast for Washington, D.C.](https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.907&lon=-77.0417&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=text&TextType=1)
-   [Local low-bandwidth NEXRAD radar for metro Washington, D.C.](https://radar.weather.gov/station/KLWX/standard)
-   [National Hurricane Service mobile site](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/mobile/)
-   [Data Services: Sun- and moonrise, daylight and darkness, eclipses](https://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/) (US Navy Astronomical Applications Department)

## Useful tilde.club sites

- [~canary](https://tilde.club/~canary/post/text-only-websites/) ("Some of the best lightweight websites", 2019)
- [~ejw](http://tilde.club/~ejw/) (Mostly for the use of pandoc)
- [~gikiski](http://tilde.club/~gikiski/) (Short daily updates on the war against Ukraine) 
- [~skingrapher](https://tilde.club/~skingrapher/) ("making the web really accessible")

## Broadcast

-   [World of Radio Anomaly Reports](http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html)

## Travel

-   [RailRat](https://railrat.net/routes/NortheastRegional/) (set to Northeast Regional)
-   [National Airport Status Summary](https://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/plaintext.html)

### Washington, D.C.

-   [BusETA](https://buseta.wmata.com/m/index?q=D90) (Set to the D90 bus)
-   Or text WMATA and the bus stop number to 41141  

## Emergencies

-   [Disasters](https://www.fema.gov/disasters/) (FEMA)
-   To find a FEMA shelter nearby, text SHELTER + the ZIP code to 43362.

## Technology

### Simpler stuff 
-   [LOW←TECH MAGAZINE](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/)
-   [Simplifier](https://simplifier.neocities.org/)
-   [Animated Knots](https://www.animatedknots.com/) (Not very low bandwith, but uses slides rather than videos.)

### Computing
-   [Permacomputing wiki](https://permacomputing.net/)
-   [Suckless.org](https://suckless.org/)
    - [Suckless's Stuff that Rocks](https://suckless.org/rocks/)
    
### Internet as a community and resource
-   [The Internet used to be* Fun](https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/)
-   [This Page is Designed to Last](https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/) (Might be a standard for your website)

### Bandwidth issues
-   [\"How to manage slower internet & low bandwidth\"](https://it.wisc.edu/learn/manage-slower-internet-low-bandwidth/)
-   [Bandwidth Conservation](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=communication:bandwidth_conservation)
-   [Working Offgrid Efficiently](https://100r.co/site/working_offgrid_efficiently.html)

## Worship
-   [Revised Common Lectionary](https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/) ("Improved" so not as light as it once was.)
    - [RLC Readings Citation Index in Canonical Order](https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/sunday-citations/) (A "when do I preach a lesson?" list.)
-   [Hymns of the Spirit services](http://www.hymnsofthespirit.org/)
-   [Universalist Prayerbook (1894)](http://universalistchristian.net/universalist-worship/)
-   [Parish Prayers](http://assets.newscriptorium.com/collects-and-prayers/parishprs.htm) (1967)
- [Open Hymnal Project](http://openhymnal.org/) (Resumed in October 2025)

## Writing
-   [Federal Plain Language Guidelines](https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/)
-   [Github Markdown Cheatsheet](https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet)
-   [Printing booklets](https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/printing-booklet-duplex.html.en) (the order of pages using half-sheets)

## Reading
-   [Project Gutenburg](https://www.gutenberg.org/)
-   [Standard EBooks](https://standardebooks.org/) (Improved-format versions of public-domain texts.)

## Universalism
-   [*Ancient History of Universalism*](https://universalistchristian.org/books/ancient-history/)
-   [*Universalism the Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During Its First Five Hundred Years*](https://tentmaker.org/books/Prevailing.html)
- [UniversalistChristianity.net](https://universalistchristian.net/) (One of my Universalism sites)

## Cooking
-   [Grimgrains](http://grimgrains.com/site/home.html), vegan and on a boat so necessarity resource-constrained

## Finances

-   [YieldFinder](https://yieldfinder.app/), best interest rates

## Some of my pre-2000 websites, re-launched.

+ This seems like a good place for them.
+ Not all subsidiary links work (and they may not have worked then) and external links are almost surely broken.

+ [William Ellery Channing Center](http://tilde.club/~wells/channing/)

## Respect

-   [World Wide Web](http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html) (CERN)