[enobrev]

Sounds like more of an indexing problem than anything else. Add a no-js switch to our search engines and you can read all the plain text your internal organs can handle.

I tend to like today's web (a bit too corporate for my taste, but I like the potential for variety). But there's no reason the modern web can't look like the old web with the right filters.

[betwixthewires]

It's not just about finding just text to read, it's about finding the documents you want to read and not having to run arbitrary application code to read it.