I love the website. Just last weekend I made a reader for my company's forum with absolutely no CSS. It's just plain text and a total of 38 lines of code written by me, which includes db connection parameters. Some people I showed it to wanted it to be the real forum. It was fast as hell and mobile and tty (lynx) friendly but didn't allow any sort of login, posting, or posts read tracking, so not really usable. Fun though. I love super basic things. Another really basic site I use is called Hacker News. Heard of it? :)
I encourage people as much as I can to consider doing sites to use as little resources as needed.
Shameless plug, I recently put up the Leanternet directory of lean internet sites, you might like to see more of these kind of sites and the Leanternet principles at https://www.leanternet.com
I like the idea in principle, though in practice i noticed that there are a bunch of similar lists and all of them tend to have only 6-7 sites (half of them being the same).
I think there needs to be a more automated way of finding and sharing these sites, perhaps some browser extension?
Indeed, which is why I have also focused towards setting some principles which would hopefully guide others into understanding and applying the mindset.
oh i did the same thing years ago when I was working at HostGator except I wrote an ncurses front-end to their live chat support system. granted i was the only person who used it (and it was an extension of a toy project i made that essentially had bots with random names connect and send garbage to see if that would propagate out to support chat and see how many people would notice). but either way it's always fun to build a minimalist interface to things (especially when you don't have the code directly for them and have to reverse engineer stuff!)
