CERN Launches Line Mode Browser Emulator

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 1, 2013 @11:50AM from the out-with-the-new-in-with-the-old dept.

itwbennett writes "As part of the project to preserve the world's first website and all of the accompanying technology, CERN last week launched a line mode browser emulator. To make the browser experience authentic, the developers recreated how terminals would draw one character at a time by covering the page in black and then revealing each character by erasing a character-sized rectangle from that cover, one-by-one, line-by-line. They also recreated the sound of typing on older keyboards, specifically an IBM RS/6000 keyboard, by using HTML5 audio elements."

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Would you care to rephrase that? by JazzHarper · 2013-10-01 12:06 · Score: 2, Informative

FTFS: "...terminals would draw one character at a time by covering the page in black and then revealing each character by erasing a character-sized rectangle from that cover, one-by-one, line-by-line."
I don't know of any terminals that ever worked that way.