Low-bandwidth links

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

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News

• CNN
• NPR
• CBC Editors Picks
• Christian Science Monitor

Intentionally Low-Fi News

• Legible News (drawn from Wikipedia)
• Slower News (seminannual now)

Reference

• Wikipedia
• Duck Duck Go smallest version
• Wilby (Search for "classic" websites)
• FrogFind (Search engine that simplifies websites for old computers)

Weather

• Graphical weather information for the United States
• Seven day forcast for Washington, D.C.
• Local low-bandwidth NEXRAD radar for metro Washington, D.C.
• National Hurricane Service mobile site
  • NHC Active Tropical Cyclones Atlantic & Carribean (English)
  • HNC Perspectivas de las Condiciones del Tiempo en el Trópico (en Español)
• Data Services: Sun- and moonrise, daylight and darkness, eclipses (US Navy Astronomical Applications Department)

Useful tilde.club sites

• ~canary (“Some of the best lightweight websites”, 2019)
• ~ejw (Mostly for the use of pandoc)
• ~gikiski (Short daily updates on the war against Ukraine)
• ~skingrapher (“making the web really accessible”)

Office and paper management

• Analog Office How-to Directory

Travel

• RailRat (set to Northeast Regional) (looking for something lighter)
  • Let’s also try Dixieland Software’s map for the Northeast
  • And their map for the Northeast Corridor
  • And Dixieland Software’s Amtrak schedules summary
• National Airport Status Summary

Washington, D.C.

• BusETA (Set to the D90 bus) [Being retired January 3, 2027]
• Or text WMATA and the bus stop number to 41141

Emergencies

• Disasters (FEMA)
• To find a FEMA shelter nearby, text SHELTER + the ZIP code to 43362.
• To get a list of all keywords you can subscribe to: text LIST to 43362.

Technology

Simpler stuff

• LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
• Simplifier
• Animated Knots (Not very low bandwith, but uses slides rather than videos.)

Computing

• Permacomputing wiki
• Suckless.org
  • Suckless’s Stuff that Rocks

Internet as a community and resource

• The Internet used to be* Fun
• This Page is Designed to Last (Might be a standard for your website)

Bandwidth issues

• "How to manage slower internet & low bandwidth"
• Bandwidth Conservation
• Working Offgrid Efficiently (100 Rabbits)

Worship

• Revised Common Lectionary (“Improved” so not as light as it once was. Will look for an alternative.)
  • RCL Year A 2025-26 citations in PDF form (35.8 kb)
  • RCL Year B 2026-27 citations in PDF form (35.8 kb)
  • RCL Year C 2027-28 citations in PDF form (35.8 kb)
  • RLC Readings Citation Index in Canonical Order (A “when do I preach a lesson?” list.)
• Gospel Parallels
• Hymns of the Spirit services
• Universalist Prayerbook (1894)
• Parish Prayers (1967)
• Open Hymnal Project (Resumed in October 2025)
• Provoo Communion Liturgies (Links, including links to liturgy in English)

Writing

• Federal Plain Language Guidelines
• Interinstitutional Style Guide, European Union
• Github Markdown Cheatsheet (Check to be sure this is not just aesthetically light.)
• Markdown Tables
• Printing booklets (the order of pages using half-sheets)

Reading

• Project Gutenburg
• Standard EBooks (Improved-format versions of public-domain texts.)

Language

Esperanto

• Zagreba Metodo (Enrique, Esperanto Fremont) (often-used basic course in different languages.)

• Universala Esperanto-Asocio (World body, link to Universala Kongreso)

• Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto (2020)

• Being Colloquial in Esperanto: A Reference Guide (David K. Jordan)

• UEA.Facilia rimedoj

  • Facililo, ĉu la vortoj estas sufiĉe facilaj?
  • Difinaro, “La difinoj de uea.facila”

• Kontakto wordlist with links to Reta Vortaro

• Statutoj de Organizoj Esperantaj (ligejo interna)

Spanish

• Español.com

Universalism

• Ancient History of Universalism
• Universalism the Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During Its First Five Hundred Years
• UniversalistChristianity.net (One of my Universalism sites)

Cooking

• Grimgrains, vegan and on a boat so necessarity resource-constrained (From 100 Rabbits)

Finances

• YieldFinder, best interest rates (“Paused” on November 11, 2026)

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

Respect

• World Wide Web (CERN)