Hypertext TV
38 comments
·April 18, 2025sabslikesobs
nickthegreek
very smooth on mobile. wish it had some soft sound effects to match the vibe
aiiizzz
Very laggy for me.
vivzkestrel
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
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
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
I don’t understand how that’s related
immibis
Fun fact: it's one of the tiny island's biggest exports
1317
thought this was going to be about things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Broadcast_Broadband_TV (hypertext on tv)
westurner
Same. Thanks; TIL about HbbTV: Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Broadcast_Broadband_TV
Had been wondering how to add a game clock below the TV that syncs acceptably; a third screen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30890265
tkzed49
if you go too deep it starts to blow up!
https://hypertext.tv/test/hypertext.tv/test/hypertext.tv/tes...
kaichanvong
"it starts to", wut?, it actually looks reporting hyperlinking–URL issue, maybe recursion U.R.L. (within that U.R.I.)
simplecto
make the internet weird again. 10/10 rating
jachee
<notes_emoji> Let’s go back to a website!
spencerflem
homestar runner just had a video on this :)
jbaber
They didn't invent the phrase for the cartoon?
medhir
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
Yeah, I miss buttons and VFD displays.
skydhash
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.
reaperducer
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.
russellbeattie
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.
ktpsns
And yet the word has a definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext and is studied since decades in science, long predating the world wide Web.
sabellito
Unusable on Firefox sadly, was getting maybe 5 fps.
sabellito
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.
Gualdrapo
Weird enough it seems to work pretty well on Firefox mobile
tyteen4a03
Fine on my macOS Firefox.
rchaud
Confirmed, FF on MacOS Sonoma with all the usual extensions.
lightlyused
Fine here. FF on Linux
fouronnes3
Changes channel faster than a modern tv
vijaybritto
This is just beautiful artistry. I absolutely love it! Only thing missing is the click/clack sounds on those buttons
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.