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What if you're homepage was a command prompt?

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That's an interesting idea.

Minor typo in the title of this post, though: you're > your.

Idea for the next iteration: make the keywords in bold into links which can be clicked, then get rid of the command prompt.

It's cumbersome on mobile, so making the bold keywords into links would be a good idea.

But I don't think they should get rid of the command prompt. One of my most immersive gaming experience was with Space Quest III and that was mainly because of the keyboard (even though my version also featured mouse support).

Sorry, I was being a bit snarky there (if you make the bold keywords clickable, it of course obviates the need for the command prompt - but the command prompt is fun in and of itself, even if it's more cumbersome to use).

I think I'd rather see something like...

"Telnet into www.example.com 8080 for the text version of our site" and have the main site more friendly.

Also, I don't intend to discount the work here but... this has been done... many times. I wish I could find a link right now. I've also seen homepages with vim key bindings.

There is also a bug where you can't copy and paste because the text immediately deselects. That might be intentional though.

Edit: also there might be a missed opportunity here. You could make applying for a job use the prompt as well. Might have the added bonus of testing how well the candidate knows command line. Right now it asks for applications via email.

https://uni.xkcd.com/ still works

You should check out http://terminal.jcubic.pl/, it has a lot of nice terminal-like features and wouldn't be hard to drop in as a replacement if you were looking for something that feels a little more realistic. I used it for a side-project of mine, https://cmdchallenge.com

Neat! If anything, the novelty of a command prompt hooked me to read more about the company than the slick-and-snazzy sites usually get me to do.

For those wondering what happens if you try view this page in a text-only browser, Elinks just shows a blank page with the text "Ey_Terminal :: Home" in the upper left corner.

I tried to tab for autocomplete and it toggles Chrome's info button showing the sites not secure. How to I put in a pull request for autocomplete?

Neat idea. Tab completion (+auto complete?) would have been really good too!

Breaks if you type this into the command line:

And <script>alert("!")</script> works :)

type hacking in prompt :-)

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