∂𑁨í 🕊 Apr 27, 2025
#TextNet #Browser is an #Android app that allows anyone around the world to browse the web without a mobile data connection! It uses #SMS as a medium of transmitting HTTP requests to a server where a pre-parsed HTML response is compressed using Google's Brotli compression algorithm and encoded using a custom Base-114 encoding format (based on Basest). All media content, JavaScript, and CSS are removed from the page, but websites that require JavaScript will still render and display. Only HTTP GET requests are implemented.
https://github.com/lukeaschenbrenner/TxtNet-Browser
GitHub - lukeaschenbrenner/TxtNet-Browser: An app that lets you browse the web over SMS

An app that lets you browse the web over SMS. Contribute to lukeaschenbrenner/TxtNet-Browser development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tero Keski-ValkamaJun 12, 2023

#CommunityWiki: #SmolNet

"There’s a nascent movement offing, I think. #Retrotech started it, hacker culture and tech, natch, but it’s incorporating new stuff like #Gemini. #Textnet, “slow internet”, I call it #smolnet. People are tired of the corporate behemoths and cacophony. #Demimondes like #SDF provide a respite from all that, and a forum for some resistance and development apart from the bloat and blather. There’s a demotic tinge to it all in the #hacker tradition, but without necessitating 1337ness."

https://communitywiki.org/static/SmolNet.html

CommunityWiki: Smol Net