Grants:IEG/Telnet
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██ WIKIMEDIA FDN (R)
Project idea
What is the problem you're trying to solve?
Many people own computers capable of reading an electronic encyclopedia, but cannot access Wikipedia due to high system requirements of the World Wide Web
What is your solution?
To create an interactive text interface (nCurses flavor) with adjustable layouts for 40 and 80 column display as well as variable column of virtual terminals. Optional trackball support for easier navigation of hyper-text links. Optionally a Free Software PBX can provide on-line content through the PSTN.
Project goals
Increase access from a WWW browser and Internet to any computer with a MODEM
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Community engagement
We intend to exhibit this a vintage computer festivals, Linux User Groups, and other meetups. We also intend to contact publications include Ars Technica and 2600.
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Reference material
- SyncTERM, open source ANSI-BBS terminal emulator
- Telnet BBS Guide. List of active BBS systems.
- Uses fTelnet (non-FLOSS) for embedding a telnet session in the browser.
- Websocket cannot directly connect to a telnet server without a proxy. Setup proxy server like: Websockify (Python), webtelnet (NodeJS)
- ANSi Web Browser concept
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- This is an interesting project. Hargup (talk) 17:56, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
- I look forward to the day when those of else without access to the internet can simply dial into 1-800-GET-WIKI. Bawolff (talk) 21:22, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
- There is already a few nCruses / text based browser that let one browse wikipedia from a terminal. w:Category:Text-based web browsers. So I am not sure how useful a telnet client would be any useful. Antoine "hashar" Musso (talk) 20:58, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
- We're planning on based it on a text browser to ease development, but current web interface sucks on them. Dispenser (talk) 23:59, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
- I was very happy to use w3m to edit Wikipedia and it was pretty usable. The only big problem I've had was the lack of non-colored "?" missing link indicator (former "highlightbroken" preference). This feature got effectively killed by moving it to CSS very long time ago, and finally removed it in phab:T29619. So, for me - a text-browser friendly skin would be enough! « Saper // talk » 08:31, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
- Very good proposal. I'm certain there's a segment of the population that still use dial-up modems for whatever reason, and if they're to access anything worthwhile on the net at that speed it'll certainly be Wikipedia! -- OlEnglish (Talk) 08:43, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
