Hypertext TV

(hypertext.tv)

228 points | by coloneltcb 4 days ago ago

39 comments

  • sabslikesobs 4 days ago 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 4 days ago ago

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

      • aiiizzz 4 days ago ago

        Very laggy for me.

  • russellbeattie 4 days ago 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.

  • vivzkestrel 4 days ago 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 4 days ago 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 4 days ago 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 4 days ago ago

          I don’t understand how that’s related

          • vivzkestrel 3 days ago ago

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

    • immibis 4 days ago ago

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

  • tkzed49 4 days ago ago
    • kaichanvong 4 days ago ago

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

  • 1317 4 days ago ago

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

  • simplecto 4 days ago ago

    make the internet weird again. 10/10 rating

    • jachee 4 days ago ago

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

      • spencerflem 4 days ago ago

        homestar runner just had a video on this :)

        • jbaber 4 days ago ago

          They didn't invent the phrase for the cartoon?

          • jachee 3 days ago ago

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

  • medhir 4 days ago 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 4 days ago ago

    Yeah, I miss buttons and VFD displays.

    • reaperducer 4 days ago 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.

    • skydhash 4 days ago 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.

  • vijaybritto 4 days ago ago

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

  • StefanBatory 4 days ago 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

  • sabellito 4 days ago ago

    Unusable on Firefox sadly, was getting maybe 5 fps.

    • Gualdrapo 4 days ago ago

      Weird enough it seems to work pretty well on Firefox mobile

    • sabellito 4 days ago 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.

    • tyteen4a03 4 days ago ago

      Fine on my macOS Firefox.

      • rchaud 4 days ago ago

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

      • alternatex 4 days ago ago

        Isn't that just WebKit?

        • Kwpolska 4 days ago ago

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

    • lightlyused 4 days ago ago

      Fine here. FF on Linux

  • fouronnes3 4 days ago ago

    Changes channel faster than a modern tv

  • zenkey 4 days ago ago

    Really cool. And no ads!

    • rchaud 4 days ago ago

      "This is a startup opportunity" /s

  • helaoban 4 days ago ago

    this is so cool

  • dmje 4 days ago ago

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