'The Plain-Text Internet is Coming'

The web is overrun with junk. This is obvious and I almost don't have to say it. Between the pop-ups, the autoplaying videos, the cookie banners, the constant calls for sign-ups, the coupon offers, and the reminders, I will. Many of the internet has become useless for a variety of reasons. Plain Text Sports is not like any of those sites. The site, created by developer Paul Julius Martinez, is a wall of monospaced plain text with boxes surrounding real-time scores for all the professional sports games happening. It doesn't have any images, pop-ups, or trackers. Even on a bad connection, it loads instantly. I've been refreshing it a lot since the end of the NBA seasons and the beginning of March Madness. It's a useful site for sports fans and it feels like a sign of things to come. Plain Text Sports is simple and he loves it. We are starting to see developers and designers rebel against the general overwhelm of the internet, as sites and apps ditch their cruft and complications for things that load faster and work more intuitively. Social networks are bringing back chronological feeds. The apps that are popular among productivity obsessives are all based on plain text. They don't look like much, but that's the point