You might as well add support for viewing this over telnet too.
Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
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Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#92Nice. One of the earliest examples of terminal style websites I've seen was jwz's www dot jwz dot org. (Linking from here produces a different site). I remember it being like this 20 years ago and it still is.
Apparently that user doesn't want people linking from this site or something.
I guess they don't like anyone who happens to click on a hyperlink here...
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#93Nice. One of the earliest examples of terminal style websites I've seen was jwz's www dot jwz dot org. (Linking from here produces a different site). I remember it being like this 20 years ago and it still is.
Link NSFW - props on style though.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#94Nice. One of the earliest examples of terminal style websites I've seen was jwz's www dot jwz dot org. (Linking from here produces a different site). I remember it being like this 20 years ago and it still is.
Apparently that user doesn't want people linking from this site or something. I guess they don't like anyone who happens to click on a hyperlink here...
Wasn't aware of that. I'll edit my link
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#95clear isn't a command? dang
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#96F12 is blocked. That's not nice.
Right-click, then inspect
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#97Slightly disappointed my `sudo rm -rf /` wouldn’t do anything.
Check your local filesystem; you might be surprised :)
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#98Make it fully navigable by clicking. Every time you suggest commands (like "help"), let the user click them, and the UI responds as if they typed it and hit enter. Every command that can be typed/clicked can be highlighted a green color or something.
don't tell him what to do
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#99I'm going to represent the critical opinion and say: this is cute and I like the idea in theory, but if I encountered this in the wild, I would just leave the page. I explore most informational websites with a mouse or a touchscreen - I don't want to type to navigate your website! A middleground might be to make the commands clickable, so that clicking on "help" automatically inserts and runs it, and clicking on any…
It's a cool looking site, but these terminal style sites (seen a few of them from web developers and software types) look terrible on phones and tablets (keyboard constantly present), which is well over 60% of web traffic now. You have to keep in mind your audience. If you presume everybody visiting this site is software-inclined, it's fine. I know a lot of less tech-literate users who would leave something like this…
I know a lot of less tech-literate users who would leave something like this straight away thinking they're being hacked or something daft.
That reminds me of the time my friend and I put together a silly shell script called pentagonhack.sh that went through an 80s-movie-style nonsense hacking sequence while you mashed the keys. Most of the content was inside jokes, but there were a number of all caps references to a Pentagon server with warnings about unauthorized access being forbidden, and overall it looked pretty plausible to someone with no technical background or even cursory knowledge of SSH and Bash.
Anyway, my friend got bored one day and fired up the script in a TTY on his laptop during lunch in our high school cafeteria. Apparently his friend who'd been sitting nearby noticed and started paying attention to what was on his screen, and then understandably found it alarming when by all appearances he was in the middle of typing out a command to run a malware executable on a Pentagon server. So she stands up and yells, "JOSH IS HACKING THE PENTAGON!". Of course he immediately switches back to X11/GNOME, probably with some homework assignment open in OpenOffice or an active Blackboard tab in Firefox, and everyone looks at his screen before looking back at her like she's crazy. The way he tells it, she was practically ready to go call the cops until he explained the joke and calmed her down.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#100That was fun, thanks for sharing!