Hypertext TV

206•coloneltcb•17h ago

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sabslikesobs•17h 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•16h ago

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

aiiizzz•1h ago

Very laggy for me.

hcarvalhoalves•17h ago

Yeah, I miss buttons and VFD displays.

skydhash•14h 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•2h 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.

medhir•17h 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 :)

simplecto•16h ago

make the internet weird again. 10/10 rating

jachee•12h ago

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

spencerflem•11h ago

homestar runner just had a video on this :)

helaoban•16h ago

this is so cool

russellbeattie•16h 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.

ktpsns•11h ago

And yet the word has a definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext and is studied since decades in science, long predating the world wide Web.

vivzkestrel•11h 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

immibis•7h ago

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

input_sh•6h 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•3h 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•3h ago

I don’t understand how that’s related

tkzed49•10h ago

if you go too deep it starts to blow up!

https://hypertext.tv/test/hypertext.tv/test/hypertext.tv/tes...

kaichanvong•2h ago

"it starts to", wut?, it actually looks reporting hyperlinking–URL issue, maybe recursion U.R.L. (within that U.R.I.)

dmje•9h ago

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

fouronnes3•9h ago

Changes channel faster than a modern tv

StefanBatory•8h 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

zenkey•6h ago

Really cool. And no ads!

sabellito•6h ago

Unusable on Firefox sadly, was getting maybe 5 fps.

tyteen4a03•5h ago

Fine on my macOS Firefox.

alternatex•2h ago

Isn't that just WebKit?

Kwpolska•2h ago

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

Gualdrapo•5h ago

Weird enough it seems to work pretty well on Firefox mobile

lightlyused•7m ago

Fine here. FF on Linux

vijaybritto•4h ago

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

1317•1h ago

thought this was going to be about things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Broadcast_Broadband_TV (hypertext on tv)

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