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Wow. Reminds of the old BBS era.





I'm also building a BBS era idea, called dialup.sh that uses a 100%-text-mode browser to reverse proxy locally hosted websites for people to run little servers for their pals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bs7BoQBoBA

I personally like the idea of a modern browser that works over SSH/terminals, on its own, but i think the BBS/social, friend-to-friend, small network idea could be the thing the indie-web (tilde, etc) have been zeroing in on the last few years.

It's good to see more people building in term/text interfaces. I think of it as a reaction to super saturation of attention-grabbing content all time, all places. Nice to have some quiet, some (visual? content?) noise cancellation for the web! Especially in the era of AI generated content now too. Overload, man. Get back to BBS days not a bad idea! :)




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