Textnet is a subnet of the internet consisting only of human-readable plain text content.
- Fastest page load time
- No annoying ads
- Focus on content
- Consistent look & feel
- Consumable on every device
- No insecure code execution
- Fast & easy creation of content
Check out the full list at the "Index" section down below.
- As plain text with any browser
- As plain text on your command line:
curl -L http://textnet.io - With a browser extension which can render markdown
(e.g. https://github.com/simov/markdown-viewer,
or https://goo.gl/unXkFA which can even render LaTeX math equations)
For extensions which only trigger on
.mdURLs you can open the original file for this page at http://textnet.io/readme.md. - As a EPUB by converting it with pandoc:
pandoc --from markdown --output textnet.epub http://textnet.io - As a PDF by converting it with pandoc:
pandoc -f markdown -o textnet.pdf --latex-engine=xelatex http://textnet.io
Either host the file on a static site hoster of your choice. For example:
- https://surge.sh/#html
- https://netlify.com/#html
- https://neocities.org/#html
- https://aws.amazon.com/s3/#html - That's where textnet.io is hosted.
Or get your own (virtual) server on e.g.
and use server software like https://nginx.org/#html or http://apache.org/#html to deliver the pages.
The page you're reading was mainly created with apple notes. This, however, is not considered a good program. It just shows the convenience of Textnet content creation.
Good programs are macOS' default TextEdit and Window's default Notepad, but also more sophisticated programs like https://atom.io/#html, https://code.visualstudio.com/#html.
There are also several online editors like http://dillinger.io/#html and https://gist.github.com/#html
Best practice is to write it in markdown, just like the page you're currently reading. It is easily readable and has become the de facto standard for plain text content. It also means the site can be rendered with a more sophisticated design if one likes to do so (e.g. with http://pandoc.org/#html) . Check out http://commonmark.org/#html for in depth documentation.
Other good formats are http://yaml.org/#html for pure data, http://asciidoc.org/#html for more sophisticated tables and ASCII- / ANSI-art for graphical content. E.g.
_______
// || \\
___//__||___\\_____
/ _ _ (
|___/ \________/ \_|
______\_/________\_/____
http://json.org/#html is only considered human readable for really small files and when pretty printed. https://www.w3.org/XML/#html ist definitely not human readable!
If your text contains links which link to HTML (normal) websites please make sure that the URL indicates this, either by linking directly to a HTML file (e.g. http://example.com/index.html) or adding a HTML hash (e.g. http://example.com/#html)
Math should be written in LaTeX and to enable rendering for markdown viewers
enclose them in $ delimiters. For example:
And by the way: It can also include emojis 😁🎉!
The files (or rather the URLs) should have no extension! If you want to convey the content type use the optional http header field "Content-Type" for it.
This is just a small subset of the Textnet. If you want your page to be featured, please submit a link on https://github.com/adius/textnet.
- http://wttr.in or http://wttr.in/Berlin - Weather forecast.
- http://wttr.in/moon - Current moonphase.
- http://qrenco.de - Create QR code of a string
Your IP address:
- http://canihazip.com/s
- http://ipinfo.io/ip - JSON response with additional data.
- http://icanhazip.com
- http://curlmyip.net
- http://ipecho.net/plain
- http://ifcfg.me
Custom IP address:
- http://ix.io -
E.g.
echo Hello world | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.ioreturns link to uploaded resource: http://ix.io/fpW - http://sprunge.us
- http://ptpb.pw
- http://cheat.sh - UNIX / Linux command cheat sheets.
- All RFC documents are accessible in plain text. (e.g. the HTTP specification: https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt)
- dict://dict.org/d:translatable - Get word definitions.
- http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt — Really bad commit messages.
- http://textfiles.com/#html - Large collection of plain text files.
- http://tldp.org/HOWTO/text/#html - Plain text how tos for Linux (e.g. How to make coffee 😂: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/text/Coffee).
This website was created by Adrian Sieber, who got fed up by shitty websites which take forever to load and look awful, although they contain minimal content (e.g. weather forecast for tomorrow).
This work is also sponsored by https://feram.io#html. A service which automatically finds & fixes bugs in code.