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anthktoday at 9:39 AM0 repliesview on HN

I could perfectly survive with gopher://magical.fish, IRC, Mosh, and https://lite.cnn.com and https://text.npr.org at 2.7KBPS speeds.

IRC -> Bitlbee.org public servers -> XMPP and more

gopher://magical.fish -> huge gopher portal. Gopher://sdf.org and a few more than proxies to Gutenberg and the like.

Mosh -> decent SSH speeds.

For fora and asynchronous chats, Usenet and Fido/DoveNet.

Music? Podcasts? Download these before, and store them. Also, books and phlog posts are far lighter and you can seek around freely, and you can read stories in a much faster way.

And, if any, tons of stations still have short wave channels, both in English and in Spanish.