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I took inspiration from ANSI art for my own domain. It also uses a scroll effect based on the 4 block characters: https://monokai.nl

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This is actually really cool. I've thought about building a BBS like service on the modern web but still having the old feeling. Your design might work for something like this. It has a bit of the feel, at least.

I love the fading as you scroll, it gives that nostalgic feeling of a modem drawing the screen.

Anyway, nice work, I enjoyed scrolling through it.

I've been thinking about an ssh-based bbs, written in a modern language, explicitly not accessible on the web.

If something like that sounds interesting to you, hmu to collaborate.

I actually installed Mystic BBS (http://www.mysticbbs.com/) just this week and had a telnet/ssh board up in minutes. Thought it’d be fun to work on a system like this in a modern language, but figured it’d likely be a colossal waste of time.

Never mind the scroll effect, you're the creator of Monokai (and Monokai Pro, of which I'm a registered ST user)???!!! Now that's impressive! :-)

Thanks for your support :)

That pixel scroll effect is so cool! How is it done?

So just this once I'm going to direct you to Reddit. They've tried to dissect it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/b0wcrm/how_is_this_...

TL;DR Position an overlay element (in this case, a <canvas>) at the bottom of the browser viewport and draw some squares in the same color as your site's background color.

Yes, correct. And this method only works because the background is the same color as the overlaid blocks and the font is monospace, so you can precisely position the blocks over the characters.

I love it. Nice work.

Love the scroll effect. Well done!

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