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by ynac 3 days ago
Almost word for word what I was thinking! The UI doesn't really get in the way but it feels like it isn't quite designed for people. And the content is excellent. I'm oddly tickled by the uniqueness of it.

As I think it would be lost with a ASK HN, I'll just beg here, what other sites have you seen that take a completely different / odd / "special" approach to UI for ordinary presentations / purposes?
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JdeBP 2 days ago
You might enjoy https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ .
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ynac 2 days ago
You'd be right. Flash backs of course to BBS homepage / door designs. Getting the -=[[UNIX]=- to look just right. Or the layers of ///FILES\\\ to flash. The graffiti style was beyond me, but the tables and sketches were very pleasurable time sinks.

I once saw a TUI adventure game that had windows - game scene, profile, comms, etc. It required a substantial screen size to really work well, but it was outstanding in brevity and communications. And no colors.

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