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This reminds me of the oldschool days when you only had e-mail but no internet and you would talk to email bot requesting web pages which were sent to you via e-mail.

Looking at that page, I can't help but feel I'm being brainwashed into a cult or something.

I can see how you'd feel vulnerable to that.

Clever hack! Reminiscent of RMS: "I fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me"

- https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Doing this means that you have your own Wayback Machine, just index your mail archive. :)

Damn, this reminds me of having to do FTP-via-email (or asking for FREQs on FidoNet) 20 years ago...

I had almost the same idea. Here there is something called facebook zero which is available at 0.facebook.com, it's facebook without images but it is free for T-Mobile users.

There would be a possibility to do some browsing if a user sends a query message to a page/other user-bot which then downloads the information and responds in a fb text message. Like that google sms feature.

Fortunately I have internet on my phone so this is not really a need anymore :)

An odd but very intriguing idea :)

I wrote a VPN-over-Facebook tunnel a week or two ago with basically the same motivation. Stupid and slow as hell, but I still want to try it out with the $12 data plan sometime.

Clever idea. The best would be making the same kind of bot for private messages, and open-source it so people can deploy their own "proxys" on Facebook.

It's a really clever idea, but something about "JPG Internet: Get your FREE JPG" made me think it was a joke at first.

just awesome! "maybe" helpful to some and at the same time it's satirical and funny. This just made my day :)

I predict the Facebook page will get shut down for displaying porn in the next day or so. Neat idea, though.

Indeed, if the Internet were a JPEG, we could just put it in our pocket and carry it around...

What happens if you post a link to some endless scrolling website?

Blindly assuming that it operates using the simplest thing that could possibly work, it's just capturing the viewport a few seconds after the page is "done" rendering. It would likely only show whatever content is loaded without scrolling.

I'm not about to go confirm this myself, as, well, Facebook.

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