THANK YOU for this very lucid post!!! People who have access to these services almost certainly have access to a data plan and would view it as a novelty rather

THANK YOU for this very lucid post!!! People who have access to these services almost certainly have access to a data plan and would view it as a novelty rather than a means of communication. I learned this the hard way by having done a very similar project a year ago, but then basically lost interest as soon as I got a smartphone. Here is my self-promotion: * http://nerdhow.net/uzblsms-a-way-to-browse-the-web-via-text-message/ http://nerdhow.net/uzblsms-a-way-to-browse-the-web-via-text-... * and of course I had it on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5835365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5835365 It's open-sores and free to set up and use (if you have a text plan) It would be pretty easy to turn it into a sms terminal which might be negligibly more useful (using a PTY with the kbd is easier than using an X Server). I guess the OP's project and mine would be perfectly equivalent if anyone's written a text-only, line-based browser, but I stopped short of this. Maybe someone else will make one? (: My biggest takeaway from the whole project was how easy it is to fall into the trap of doing something just to be able to pat yourself on the back. Real altruism isn't this cheap.