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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by QuantumNomad_ on Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:54PM (#46495200)
It’s too bad that WML from WAP is not used anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol

WML pages had mostly text and hyperlinks from what I remember and even though it supported images too I think most such basic pages would be readable even if you turned image loading off.

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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by duggan on Monday January 05, 2026 @03:31AM (#46496506)
I spent so much time tuning the WAP site for the forum I worked for back in 2008.

I had some sort of Nokia running on whatever 2kbps networking was going then, and would shave absolutely anything I could to make the forums load slightly faster.

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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by IanCal on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:28AM (#46497193)
We could use markdown.
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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by ahazred8ta on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:52AM (#46501226)
It's a crying shame that a browser can't fetch a plain vanilla goodstuff.md file and display it natively.
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