You can't convince me this isn't the best way to browse Mastodon.
@kaniini
Fair. w3m is cool, but not gopher cool.
@gcupc Sure I can. ... if I can ever get my hands on a real vt100 anyway.
@gcupc Ooo, or someone could hack together a thing to present the public timeline as broadcast teletext, that'd be pretty cool. ... I forgot to post this because I got distracted mocking a page up.
@gcupc LIKE THIS. Just a mockup though.
@keiyakins @gcupc gotta jump into this thread to say
i love this look, so so much
@KitRedgrave @gcupc I know, right? It's not even nostalgic for me - teletext never caught on in the US - but it hits just the right balance of featureness vs simplicity to be really compelling
@keiyakins @gcupc mastodon as a bbs door
@KitRedgrave @keiyakins @gcupc this
this so much
@keiyakins @gcupc yr good with public toots, thx!
@keiyakins
I really like the ANSI graphics logo.
@gcupc what is it?
@Efi
It's cool-retro-term 😃
@gcupc ooooh, dank!
but what's the client?
@Efi
The browser is w3m, browsing brutaldon.online.
@gcupc Can I convince you that it isn't the worst way?
@gcupc That is NEARLY the best way. Best way: take that monitor, rotate it 90 degrees. Then you're done.
@mkb
Cool-retro-term, but same idea.
@gcupc Nah, Lynx is better.
@victorberland
I've always preferred lynx, but I'm finding things I like better in w3m lately.
@gcupc I really wish I had my old Compaq Portable Computer III; it also had orange and black colors
@gcupc In certain cases this would be the best way. Like when my eyes are too tired to deal with graphics. ;)
@gcupc What about on an actual CRT tho ? :)
@Jo
This has the advantage that you can actually open images and videos with a helper program.
I did use to have a green screen terminal, but I had to give it away in a move.
@gcupc I mean, a colour CRT might work just as well. 
@Jo
True...but I think I gave away my last color CRT in 2000-ish. I probably had the terminal more recently than that.
@gcupc it's not
you should be using an actual CRT and an actual old computer 😛
CoolRetroTerm uses too many resources just to fake a CRT
@grainloom
True. But while it's a waste of computing resources, it's almost certainly using less electricity than the real thing.
@gcupc 
i guessss that's true
one must always balance retroness with the power bill
Compared to 18 W for the 23" 1080p IPS monitors that I'm deploying to my users, and cool-retro-term is probably only using a couple watts of GPU power...
And then I had an IBM 5153 CGA monitor on top, also running, and that's rated at I believe 95 W input.
@bhtooefr @grainloom
Until I looked closely at your image, I didn't realize that IBM made one of those. Before I zoomed in, I thought it was a Compaq - my dad sometimes brought one of those home from work.
The way I like to put it is, it's an amazingly well-built, but poorly engineered machine. The Compaqs were designed specifically to be good luggables, whereas this was a luggable made from desktop parts as a rush job.
You get 8 slots in this, where a Compaq had 5 (both had 2 used in a base configuration)... but all three of the Compaq's free slots were full length, whereas the drives in this mean you only get one free full length slot, and the other five slots are only 5" long.
