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Indeed, it looks deliciously like Ceefax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax I might get up at 5am and stare at it while listening to some easy-listening music.
I remember being in Germany a few years ago, and my friends' parents still used this (something equivalent in Germany) on their TV. It was effective.
Where is the turbo button?
LOL, the turbo button when the front of the PC displayed the number of MHz the computer was operating at, and you could slow it down so you could play old games. Good times.
This put such a huge smile on my face. I was having a shit day, but now it's awesome. Thank you! P.S. I will go build like 9 websites using this immediately.
My one criticism is the hamburger being used at 978 and below. The hamburger is a 21st century artifact. Using [MENU] feels more old-school to me.
(yes Xerox did it in 1981, but I expect most of us were rocking a Apple II, 386, or C64 at that time...)
It looks old, it looks comical, but I KNOW WHAT TO DO! Less pixels, and less colours, means greater usability! This is the greatest application of Bootstrap I have ever seen. It is a shame that more websites don't look like this (in all seriousness).
Given the increasing complexity of the web plus nostalgia, I'm seriously surprised that there's no actual distributed BBS/Minitel/BTX thing going on. With API-driven backends (webapps, esp. SPA's, mobile apps), it would probably be easy enough to shoe-horn in some glorious ANSI interface...
This is my only thing, make the flicker faster .. and the update should be almost instant.
Textmode was fast... ! This is my only thing, make the flicker faster .. and the update should be almost instant.
While I'm here.. make the scrolling only scroll by character boundries, for a more authentic feel - the header shouldn't overlap by say half a character, since textmode was cell based.