Are You Old School? Check Out TextFiles.com

TEXTFILES.COM is a site dedicated to the Textfiles of the BBS World from the 1980’s. Naturally, this role expands into the continuation of the textfile-writing world into the 1990’s, and goes back to the 1960’s and 1970’s as well. Unlike a lot of sites, this Page Source has a lot of comments. This is because this site’s main purpose is education, and a user should have the opportunity to see how this site was created and what the thought process was behind the look. Plus, the site weighs in at a very low size, so giving an explanation with the download is not a very bandwidth-intensive activity, and might inspire someone. Since TEXTFILES.COM harkens back to an earlier era, but is being done in the modern era, it is the usual blend of recent features and hacks to simulate older technology. In this case, everything is in green (which, believe it or not, is the light that the eye takes the longest to get tired looking at) on a black screen, and the visual “hook” is the Blinking Cursor, which has disappeared in a lot of mainstream, windowed applications. This is accomplished with small animated GIFs. Visit site…

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