Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s • Hacker News Board

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by tritri » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 4:46 PM UTC

I've been having a lot of thoughts about why I love technology so much, and this really put the biggest smile on my face!

Thank you so much for creating this. It's so unique, classic, novel.

I sincerely hope all the best for your career and your aspirations!

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by xedarius » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 4:48 PM UTC

As soon as the page came up I instinctively took my hand off the mouse and placed them on the cursor keys, which made me laugh.

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by mVChr » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

Ahhhhh, a nostalgia Bootstrap I can get behind.

Unlike http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by jordan0day » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 4:56 PM UTC

busterarm wrote: post #53

busterarm wrote: post #40

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.

Anyone have any advice for rendering images in a time/technology-appropriate fashion?

Lots of dithering, a 16 or 256 color palette, or just straight up convert to ASCII art.

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by mcguire » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 5:05 PM UTC

busterarm wrote: post #53

busterarm wrote: post #40

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.

Anyone have any advice for rendering images in a time/technology-appropriate fashion?

An animated giv scanning through each line of the image one at a time?

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by JonnieCache » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

Make sure to check out the project's wiki page, where he goes into detail on DOS terminal modes:

https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386/wiki/DOS-Termin...

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by jerf » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 5:21 PM UTC

I see this faithfully reproduces that the cursor takes one pass to write the text, then flashes through a second faster pass. I remember seeing that sometimes.

Question: On the real systems where that occurred, what was the second pass doing? It never seemed to change anything. (No guesses, please. I'm looking for someone who knows.)

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by honestcoyote » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 5:37 PM UTC

busterarm wrote: post #53

busterarm wrote: post #40

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.

Anyone have any advice for rendering images in a time/technology-appropriate fashion?

If you're building a Macintosh System 6 or 7 style page, use this site[1] to create 1-bit Atkinson[2] dithered images which will fit perfectly.

[1] http://gazs.github.io/canvas-atkinson-dither [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atkinson

If you actually used a Mac back in the late 80's / early 90's, this site's output will give you a heady shot of pure, undiluted nostalgia. I wasted half an afternoon once, converting images for my imaginary Hypercard project.

Photoshop will also give you options and allow you to reduce colors down to an 8 bit or 4 bit palette, with a variety of dithering choices, or for the true lofi look (It's 1991 and I used the school's lab scanner for the first time!), no dithering at all.

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by api » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

I literally experienced a sense memory from viewing this. I could smell the slight smell that old, hot CRT monitors emitted -- probably some volatile mix of things that give you cancer.

Wow!

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by Karunamon » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 5:49 PM UTC

mhd wrote: post #36

zhte415 wrote: post #15

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...

Telnet BBSes are still a thing, believe it or not. The first one I can think of off the top of my head is the home of a BBS software package.

Try telnetting to vert.synchro.net