Rendering a webpage on my VT340 terminal in sixel graphics mode. *at 9600 baud

Impressive. Only slightly slower than browsers rendering webpages today.

Also, forgive my ignorance (this era of computing pre-dates me by a couple years) but I assume that program is not running "locally" on the terminal, right? If not, what's it connected to?

Right. It’s just a terminal. It’s connected to a local linux box over a serial tty connection. So the host is doing the work of converting web page to sixel coded image, then sends that over the wire. This terminal was the first color terminal to support sixel graphics.

Wild! By rendering, do you mean you're parsing the HTML/CSS? And if so, how on earth are you doing that?

This looks surprisingly not terrible :)

@shahidkamal I'd forgotten just how slow yet strangely compelling it was back then.

Today we have better....monitors

time to switch to gopher!

Someone from the past accesses the future using the Internet #scifi

You had me at VT340 terminal... at 9600 Baud is just showing off! 🙃😂😊 Love it!