"I use computers for...well, I use them for reading stuff. That is, actually reading it. Text. Pictures if I have to." The other day I starting thinking of a w

"I use computers for...well, I use them for reading stuff. That is, actually reading it. Text. Pictures if I have to." The other day I starting thinking of a way to filter the internet down to text/plain content only. I couldn't find a way to make Google filter on Content-Type, you can filter on filetype:txt but not all urls to text/plain content will have that extension. I also looked for a aggregate site that only allowed users to submit links to text/plain content but didn't find one, thinking about making one. Multimedia, markup, JavaScript and hypertext are all really useful, but they are abused so much that I think it would be better to start with the assumption that it's useless until proven otherwise. I'd rather have to copy and paste a URL to get a picture of a diagram relevant to an article than open the flood gates for in-line media, styling and scripting just because it looks a little nicer and saves few keystrokes.