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.
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Thanks!
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).
I love this so much. Everything about the text mode of PCs (that is, what we used to call "IBM compatibles") is burnt into my brain at the deepest levels. Seeing this is like a jolt of electricity.
If you ask me to picture "what does a byte look like?", I am not going to think of binary or hex, I am going to instantly imagine the "extended ASCII" of code page 437.
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...
Very nice, it's so convincing my first reaction was to use the left-right cursor keys to change the selected menu option! (that would be a cool enhance by the way).
kudos!
Needs keyboard arrow navigation :)
Ahhhhh, a nostalgia Bootstrap I can get behind.
It might be more accurate to call this a simulation of vga text mode -- more early 90s than 1980s. Still, very cool.
This seems like a good time to post Cathode, the retro terminal for OSX: http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
Where is the turbo button?
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.
This is by far the best bootstrap theme I have seen!
First: Kudos. That is easily the coolest thing I've seen this month.
Everything "felt" like a fancy over-done BBS of the early 90s in the way that the page loaded slowly, but I'm curious why you chose the second swipe of the cursor over the screen. I don't remember my PC from 8088-80386 ever doing that. Am I misremembering and was this in reference to some platform from the 80s that I didn't use?
This is by far the coolest thing I've seen in months. Kudos!
Now, excuse me while I find my Def Leppard cassette tape and turn up my collar.
Needs more ═[▪]═╗. :)
oh Turbo Vision, how I miss you!
This is incredibly well done.
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...)
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!
Would anyone like to give a hand with https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font so we could build a 3270 theme?
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!
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.)
Am I the only one that noticed the irony of presenting a Javascript-required website with the self-promotional phrase: Made for everyone. Bootstrap was made to not only look and behave great in the latest desktop browsers (as well as IE7!), but in tablet and smartphone browsers via responsive CSS as well.?
Looks pretty awesome. I'm a little disappointed that the cursor wasn't turned into a block though.
I will have to check this out for the next version of Sixtten Colors (an ANSI and ASCII art gallery). We use a similar font, but it is far from bootstrapped.
Where's the button to compile .pas modules though ?
bootstrap === csszengarden 2.0
This is awesome, I'll be using this to revamp my personal site.
Love it. I'd love it more if it worked w/o js -- but at least it renders ok in w3m -- so I guess I can live with having to enable js in Firefox...
instagram tag search circa 1980
How can I make every website use this? It's one of the few designs that doesn't look like shit.
Flat UI; we've come full circle.
Textmode was fast... !
This is my only thing, make the flicker faster .. and the update should be almost instant.
I noticed that progress bars aren't styled. Otherwise it's awesomely consistent.
Awesome! Will be more 386-like if I can use the arrow keys to control the navigator ;)
This is really clever! But text mode interfaces weren't _that_ slow.
Glorious, I can't wait to come up with a project to use this in.
That's when Borland was right up there with Microsoft!
This is awesome!! Should use this as resume template!
This is so rad. I mean, like, totally awesome!
Icons need more work! My next theme, for sure.
I can't help but think the creator's genius would've been better applied to practically anything else. But so what, it's fantastic!
OMG! what an awesome throwback!
whow! this is the coolest thing i've seen this whole year!
Just simply awesome :)
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7959068
very very cool!
I love this.
I can't use this in production until you get rid of the scrolling painting!
This is a work of art.
All the details are just right, from the color palette to the menu separators and edges drawn with fake ASCII 'drawing' characters to the little blip that refreshes the screen line by line. Even the name is perfect: "BOOTSTRA.386" -- eight characters plus three for the extension, all in uppercase.
THANK YOU.