This page was developed for the lynx text browser while testing markdown over the finger protocol. Requirements:

  1. The (A) page and (B) all links selected: must render visually well using the lynx browser

  2. Supported links on the source page (markdown@happynetbox.com) are http/s, gopher and finger.
    All links on this page are http/s only (the other protocols are proxied).

Text-friendly sites

Site Description
frogfind Text-browser optimized search
Wiby Search Engine for light websites
DDG Lite The search results are regular web
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NPR Text Nonprofit, public-service journalism
CBC Lite Canadian news with a progressive focus
CSMonitor Text Non-partisan, Centrist Global News
The Daily Populous What's popular on social media snapshot (hn)
Stallman News Notes Richard Stallman's personal political notes
CNN Lite Narrative-shaping news network
Daily Mail Text Tabloid sensationalism with right-wing hammer
Timeswire (NYT) News wire: articles display with lynx
Legible News Text-friendly news with sources
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Hacker News: gopher Community-driven tech aggregator (https)
Alterslash Text-friendly Slashdot
Subreply Text-based social media site
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Best Page / Universe Cult-classic internet commentary
Usenet Archives Organized collection of Usenet posts
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The ASCII Art Emporium All Things ASCII Art (https/proxy)
Gutenberg: Categories Text ebooks, sorted by category
Gutenberg: Popular Sorted by popularity/downloads
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wttr: Nuuk, Greenland Sample link: Edit location, URL
Low Bandwidth Weather Smolnet-friendly: Not text browser friendly
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NBA Boxscores Text-friendly daily NBA Boxscores

Misc early finger...

Smolnet Core

Protocol Port Description Year
gemini 1965 Lightweight modern web with mandatory TLS 2019
gopher 70 A WWW text-based alternative 1991
spartan 300 Retro-friendly Gemini alternative; no TLS 2021
nex 1900 Unencrypted pure text-based protocol 2023
finger 79 First decentralized micro-blogging platform 1971
? http 80 Unencrypted web browsing (light html) 1991
? https 443 Secure web browsing (TLS/SSL) (light HTML) 1994

This page is developed for lynx (and tested on other browsers).

-- Direct links: (https://) (gopher://) (finger://) .. lynx supported

-- Proxied links: (gemini://) (spartan://) (nex://) .. not supported

-- table widths are a text-browser friendly 80 columns max

-- Helpful Lynx Tips - Smooth Scrolling & Foreground Colors

Access & render to html via finger

Note: What started as a test of 'Markdown over Finger' turned into a smolnet webpage. I think there's value
in having both of these things intermingling. I always liked MD as a light (smolnet) version of html. 
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