Terminal Island

A very different blog is the Terminal Island, a text-based blog with a text-based interface. Reminds good old DOS, but also those text game adventures we all learned to love centuries ago.

The idea: you are presented with a command prompt and have to type what you want to see. "posts", for instance, shows the posts. A horrible interface, of course, but someone had to do it. That's what is good on the internet: you think of something and someone had probably already done it.

The technology behind it is simple. The command prompt seems to be a input text form, blended using CSS. A javascript reads what one types and makes visible the appropriate DIV layer. All very straightforward.

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