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 may or may not put some of my pre-2000 webpages here, too. (Just started!) ~wells

News

• CNN
• NPR
• CBC Editors Picks
• Christian Science Monitor
• Blue Ridge Public Radio, broadcasting from Asheville, N.C. Set up after Hurricane Helene. Posting again after stopping October 2024.

Intentionally Low-Fi News

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

Reference

• Wikipedia Mobile
• Duck Duck Go smallest version
• Wilby (Search for "classic" websites)
• FrogFind (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
• Data Services: Sun- and moonrise, daylight and darkness, eclipses (US Navy Astronomical Applications Department)

High Utility tilde.club sites

• Work in progress

Broadcast

• PBS Programs (down, 2025-03-20)
• World of Radio Anomaly Reports

Travel

• RailRat (set to Northeast Regional)
• National Airport Status Summary
• Find your seat map (SeatGuru)
• Tiny world map

Washington, D.C.

• BusETA (Set to the G2 bus)
• 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.

Technology

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

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

Worship

• Revised Common Lectionary (“Improved” so not as light as it once was.)
  • RLC Readings Citation Index in Canonical Order (A “when do I preach a lesson?” list.)
• Hymns of the Spirit services
• Universalist Prayerbook (1894)
• Parish Prayers (1967)

Writing

• Federal Plain Language Guidelines
• Github Markdown Cheatsheet
• Printing booklets (the order of pages using half-sheets)

Reading

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

Universalism

• Ancient History of Universalism
• Universalism the Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During Its First Five Hundred Years

Cooking

• Grimgrains, vegan and on a boat so necessarity resource-constrained

Finances

• YieldFinder, 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

Respect

• World Wide Web (CERN)