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CERN Launches Line Mode Browser Emulator

Posted by Soulskill on 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."

2 of 92 comments (clear)

  1. So you found the god particle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Next on the list: Emulate oldest terminal browser, drink single malt, fire paladium at each other w/accelerator for fun cause there is no more science left!? #waste

  2. Re:Would you care to rephrase that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're a fucking moron.