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That's a great idea! Some news websites do offer low-bandwidth options, like NPR:

https://text.npr.org/

You also used to be able to interact with Twitter solely through SMS. I think there are two big reasons why this sort of design philosophy is uncommon:

* Addiction to heavy JS frameworks and libraries.

* More bandwidth = more ads.




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