sabslikesobs 2 days ago

Not only is this a wonderful idea, the skeuomorphic design looks awesome and it works well on mobile. Wow!

Note also that the source can be found through the menu button, which leads to https://github.com/evadecker/hypertext.tv.

  • nickthegreek 2 days ago

    very smooth on mobile. wish it had some soft sound effects to match the vibe

    • aiiizzz a day ago

      Very laggy for me.

vivzkestrel a day ago

fun fact: .tv domain name represents the island of tuvalu in the pacific. everytime you register a domain name here, ICANN pays them an annual sum for upkeep

  • input_sh a day ago

    Dang, what's next? .me being owned by Montenegro? .ai by Anguilla? .fm by Micronesia!?

    Jokes aside, every two-letter domain belongs to a "country" (using that term very broadly), some countries just got luckier than others.

    • vivzkestrel a day ago

      maybe not as lucky in the case of tuvalu as it is estimated that the island is going to sink completely in a few decades

      • qqcqq a day ago

        I don’t understand how that’s related

        • vivzkestrel 12 hours ago

          he said "some countries just got luckier than the others"

  • immibis a day ago

    Fun fact: it's one of the tiny island's biggest exports

simplecto 2 days ago

make the internet weird again. 10/10 rating

  • jachee a day ago

    <notes_emoji> Let’s go back to a website!

    • spencerflem a day ago

      homestar runner just had a video on this :)

      • jbaber 19 hours ago

        They didn't invent the phrase for the cartoon?

        • jachee 5 hours ago

          It’s literally the reference I was making. :)

medhir 2 days ago

omg, this was made at sfpc! spent some time there in 2016, love to see things being made there still.

the crt shader aesthetic is really cool. will try and make a pr of my own sometime :)

hcarvalhoalves 2 days ago

Yeah, I miss buttons and VFD displays.

  • skydhash 2 days ago

    I have an AVR and both it and its button is a pleasure to use. By comparison, the Apple TV is non existent physically and the remote is beautiful to look at and awful to use.

  • reaperducer a day ago

    Yeah, I miss buttons and VFD displays.

    I miss the clarity and aesthetics of VFDs, but I don't miss actual VFDs.

    My KitchenAid oven and microwave both have VFD displays. They have degraded to the point of being almost unusable in just eight years.

russellbeattie 2 days ago

Nice! The word "hypertext" still evokes a sense of wonder and futurism to me, no matter how old the term is. I own hypertext.plus. Someday I'll have to make a list of all the active hypertext.* websites and register another one as a sort of meta-hypertext site listing them all.

sabellito a day ago

Unusable on Firefox sadly, was getting maybe 5 fps.

  • sabellito 19 hours ago

    Indeed when opening it in a fresh ff profile it loaded just fine.

    To redeem myself a bit, spent the last 20 min disabling extensions to find out the culprit, but even with all of them disabled it's still unusable on my default profile. Then spent some time in about:config (and the normal settings like hardware acceleration), but coulnd't find anything obvious.

  • Gualdrapo a day ago

    Weird enough it seems to work pretty well on Firefox mobile

  • tyteen4a03 a day ago

    Fine on my macOS Firefox.

    • rchaud a day ago

      Confirmed, FF on MacOS Sonoma with all the usual extensions.

    • alternatex a day ago

      Isn't that just WebKit?

      • Kwpolska a day ago

        No, macOS has real browsers, you're thinking of iOS.

fouronnes3 a day ago

Changes channel faster than a modern tv

vijaybritto a day ago

This is just beautiful artistry. I absolutely love it! Only thing missing is the click/clack sounds on those buttons

zenkey a day ago

Really cool. And no ads!

  • rchaud a day ago

    "This is a startup opportunity" /s

StefanBatory a day ago

I remember seeing similar idea in the past on HN - a website serving a few channels, that were the same for everyone browsing at the time. Is it a similar thing? It strikes some memories, but it's hazy for me :(

Also - amazing job with the design

dmje a day ago

This is so great. The design ethic is exquisite. Love it.