sabslikesobs 21 hours 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 20 hours ago

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

    • aiiizzz 5 hours ago

      Very laggy for me.

vivzkestrel 15 hours 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 10 hours 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 7 hours 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 7 hours ago

        I don’t understand how that’s related

  • immibis 11 hours ago

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

medhir 20 hours 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 20 hours ago

make the internet weird again. 10/10 rating

  • jachee 16 hours ago

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

    • spencerflem 15 hours ago

      homestar runner just had a video on this :)

      • jbaber 31 minutes ago

        They didn't invent the phrase for the cartoon?

hcarvalhoalves 20 hours ago

Yeah, I miss buttons and VFD displays.

  • skydhash 18 hours 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 6 hours 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 20 hours 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 10 hours ago

Unusable on Firefox sadly, was getting maybe 5 fps.

  • sabellito 37 minutes 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 9 hours ago

    Weird enough it seems to work pretty well on Firefox mobile

  • tyteen4a03 9 hours ago

    Fine on my macOS Firefox.

    • rchaud 3 hours ago

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

    • alternatex 6 hours ago

      Isn't that just WebKit?

      • Kwpolska 6 hours ago

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

vijaybritto 8 hours ago

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

fouronnes3 13 hours ago

Changes channel faster than a modern tv

zenkey 10 hours ago

Really cool. And no ads!

  • rchaud 3 hours ago

    "This is a startup opportunity" /s

StefanBatory 12 hours 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 13 hours ago

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