Do you need to view the content of a website but you don't have an internet connection? No problem. Cosmos Browser is a browser that intends to use the SMS protocol to display optimized web pages.
Cosmos Brower is a browser Android which does not need an Internet connection to visit websites, but simple SMS.
A developer who participated in the last EPIC Hackathon from Ann Arbor has posted the source code of a web browser on Github for Android, Cosmos Browser, which uses the SMS protocol to browse the web for free and without having an internet connection.
How it works ? When you want to access a web page, Cosmo sends a request to a phone server hosted by Twilio via SMS. The platform receives the requested URL, obtains the HTML code of the site, and creates a clean version of all CSS code, javascript and images. Everything is then compressed in GZIP, encoded in Base64, and sent back to the requester's phone number in the form of an SMS.
Cosmos Browser is not yet available, but should arrive by the end of the month on the Play Store.