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Accessing This Site With Browsers That Only Use Megabytes or RAM (Just 10MB or Thereabouts)
This site is compatible with NetSurf, a Web browser I used quite a lot half a decade ago (after it had completed a major new release). This site also works with Lynx and Netscape from 30 years ago. Lynx is not exactly pretty, but it gets the job done. NetSurf is also OK for many fundamental tasks; one of my laptops still uses it to fetch pages.
Having just mentioned software bloat (against the rising prices of RAM), consider the fact Lynx takes only a few megabytes of RAM to run properly and NetSurf can cope with a few tens of megabytes of RAM (I did benchmarks years ago).
Browser bloat isn't a "third-world" issue. Many people with decent PCs are complaining about the same:
There are lists of low RAM browsers, but those lists seem to be LLM slop (this one is, at best, hybrid slop+human editor).
One alternative to all this is our Gemini Edition or plain text bulletins, which are released every day. Failing that, NetSurf and Lynx ought to do. █
