no-html.club posed an interesting question: Can you have a website without any HTML, CSS, or JS?
Yes, actually!
My latest experiment hosts a plain text file on Bluesky Social’s blob storage. Since the text/plain mime-type is seemingly blocked, I’m using the text/markdown mime. If you inspect the source in your browser, you should see exactly what is rendered on the page.
Non-standard web hosting can be a lot of fun. Novel providers like Orbiter are building on the Coinbase Base L2 and Pinata, and tooling like Cloudflare Tunnels and ngrok make it easy to deploy on local devices.
If you’re interested in hosting your own text file on Bluesky, check out my previous guide on hosting HTML on Bluesky’s AtProto. The process is similar, but you’ll use the text/markdown MIME type instead of HTML (the text/plain MIME-type appears to be blocked).
Practically, this has no purpose. But it was a fun thing to throw together, and really demonstrates that we’re only confined by frameworks and build processes in so far as we let them.
The web doesn’t have to be complicated. Sometimes all you need is text.
More PURE—INTERNET
I’ve been exploring this space a bit, seeing how close to “pure internet” you can really get these days. If you’re interested in more non-standard hosting, check out my other work: