It's pretty awesome and I've tried to use it as my main terminal many times. Unfortunately for my teenager memories, the modern terminal fonts are just more efficient for me these days.

If you're using macOS, try Cathode. It looks very similar and I love it. I have mine set up to use the same font as old IBM PCs, with green text and a CRT-like background. When I start the app it goes "ding!" in that beautiful PC-speaker way and the screen shakes like a CRT turning on. Add a bit of CRT haze (it's very customisable) and my terminal takes me back to my DOS and 90s Linux days.

Do I need this for my terminal? No.

Do I enjoy it? Absolutely yes :)

(Sadly it seems not to be under active development any more, but try this link: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36568/cathode I'm not affiliated with Cathode, btw, other than that years ago I sent the author an email saying how much I liked it.)

I dig this!

Also, it was discussed thoroughly 7 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734137 (282 points, 71 comments)

I loved CRT back when I had the privilege of using macOS as my daily driver. Now, I'm stuck with Windows, and since CRT relies on a huge mess of Qt bullshit, it doesn't build for Windows.

Thanks! Using it now. Awesome!!

Never used it but the pics look a lot more authentic than the article!