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Meet Hyper.is – the terminal written in HTML, JS and CSS

Phil Endecott

Anyterm

It's now 11 years since I wrote Anyterm, the first terminal-on-a-web-page:

http://anyterm.org/

There are some demos there, but you'll probably crash it if you all try at once.

It's open-source (GPL) and still maintained - I just added IPv6 support a few days ago.

For those of you asking "why", the main answer is so that people who find themselves behind an http-only firewall can still do command-line stuff on external machines.

My implementation was largely constrained by the technology available at the time (and the code still has lots of work-arounds for hopefully long-since-fixed browser bugs). It should be much easier to do today if you start from scratch.

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