# Non-hypertext weird news site with archive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 30, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747 "2009-10-30T17:32:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747/1 "2009-10-30T17:32:11Z")
The News Of The Weird site stopped posting back in April. I’ve looked around for another site but all the other sites I could find were either hypertexted or had no archives. ---
**Author:** ![pan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@pan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pan1)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747/2 "2009-10-30T19:07:52Z")
Snopes has an odd news section. Trutv has the dumb blog. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747/3 "2009-10-30T22:07:05Z")
When I click on [News of the Weird](http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html) I see weekly columns through the current week. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747/4 "2009-10-30T22:25:30Z")
Yeah, I read a new column there every week. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747/5 "2009-10-31T00:40:44Z")
What do you mean by “hypertexted”? Almost everything on the Web is hypertext. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747/6 "2009-10-31T19:03:29Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > When I click on [News of the Weird](http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html) I see weekly columns through the current week. Last time I was there in September, there were only columns listed up to April. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747/7 "2009-10-31T19:04:57Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What do you mean by “hypertexted”? Almost everything on the Web is hypertext. Short blurbs followed by links. Isn’t that what its called? ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747/8 "2009-10-31T19:22:33Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Short blurbs followed by links. Isn’t that what its called? Hypertext is just text with links – as opposed to a plain text file with only words and no interactivity. At first I thought you were some sort of technophobe afraid of links and wanted something like old-school newspapers, only online (how that’d make sense, I don’t know). Do you mean you want the full text on the initial page, not on a second page “after the jump”, so to speak? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747/9 "2009-11-01T01:07:01Z")
The way I understood it was comparing NotW, a page of short news items, with, say, [fark.com](http://fark.com), a page of links to news items. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747/10 "2009-11-01T18:29:23Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > The way I understood it was comparing NotW, a page of short news items, with, say, [fark.com](http://fark.com), a page of links to news items. Exactly ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Dubinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-hypertext-weird-news-site-with-archive/515747/11 "2009-11-01T19:01:01Z")
I hate the “blog” format too. Especially when you click on something that looks like a link but bring you back to exactly where you were. WTF is up with that. tho calling it “hypertext” was indeed odd. in what context did you learn this word?