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I found a list: https://github.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites

That list is so random and inconsistent that I would not recommend visiting it. There are very few actual lite websites, a link to Wikipedia, some random "useful" sites and what I can only imagine is spam for some services.

Unfortunately a lot of those links aren't really "lite". They might be better than the site's main pages but I don't think they're equivalent to NPR's lite page for instance.

That's not the fault of that list maintainer, some sites may have bloated up their "lite" pages since they were added. I used to have several lite news sites bookmarked from back in the GPRS days that no longer exist.

I miss the WAP sites, whenever I get downgraded to EDGE on my network.

Fascinating that it is still in service. All of ours has been reclaimed for faster services and even 3g is starting to go away now.

I don't miss WAP as a technology but I also definitely miss WAP and WAP-like sites on mobile. So many "lite" sites have gone full JavaScript bloat and are lite only in name. It's is not difficult to add some minimal CSS for branding and just spit out static HTML.

I find the circular reasoning or bloat amusing. "We needs ads to pay for the resource usage of adding our ads!".

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