I guess I live in a fantasy land of my own creation. In my world, it is perpetually 1987 and I spend the majority of my time on a VT240 terminal writing development tools for VMS. At night I watch "Space : 1999" reruns and write games in assembly language for 16 bit DOS systems.
I enjoy using Lynx. It strips away the cruft of the modern web. I have never seen a pop-up add using a text based browser. There are just too few people using Lynx to make it profitable. But the flip side of that is there are very few web pages optimized to look good to a text based browser.
And that's why I'm doing this: to share a few sites that are pleasant to look at when using an old, text-based browser.
Great! Fork this project on GitHub, make some changes and send me a pull request.
Sure, it seems a bit weird at first, but if your terminal supports sixel graphics you can convince the mpv video player to render video to the terminal with a (*nix) command like this:
mpv --no-config --vo=sixel --profile=sw-fast --really-quiet \
--vo-sixel-reqcolors=0 --ao='pulse' <video file>
Here's a link to a YouTube video showing off how this command may be used: https://youtu.be/_b7EZf8JAFQ.
Last updated January 19th, 2025.