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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Keyboard sounds by Guest316 · 2013-10-01 12:09 · Score: 5, Funny

I've occasionally startled people by identifying their brand and model of computer or terminal over the phone just by the sound of their keyboards. Membrane keyboards have deprived me of this form of amusement though.