INTERACTIVE TINY TERMINAL™ - README.TXT

Welcome, GUEST.

I'm glad you found this!

You’ve just booted into Interactive Tiny Terminal™ —an experimental interface duct-taped together from the bones of PC DOS 2.0, fragments of SCO XENIX, a splash of Sinclair BASIC, and whatever other digital fossils I could extract from abandoned floppies and dying EEPROMs.

As you can tell, this isn’t your average web UI.

This is the true entrance to geek.lio.is —the dark basement full of forgotten files, experimental modules, and dead-end directories with weird glowing things inside.

Nothing here is accessible from the Main Navigation Menu. That’s for web tourists.

Here, it’s you vs. the prompt.
No tooltips. No breadcrumbs. No mercy.

Running on an ultra-overclocked IBM XT 286 (model 5162) that proudly self-identifies as “some kind of proto i9”, despite its silicon lineage being closer to a pocket calculator having an identity crisis. Networking is graciously handled via a state-of-the-art USRobotics Sportster 14.4k Fax Modem —so yes, all packets are delivered to you with the elegance of a fax machine screaming into the void.

Featuring an allmighty 53-character command line, of which 52 are actually usable due to the noble presence of a modern blinking caret cursor that refuses to compromise on aesthetics or byte alignment. Every keystroke you enter is processed by a Intel 80286 that believes it’s the protagonist of a cyberpunk prophecy.

This system encourages:

✓ Curiosity over comfort.
✓ Exploration over efficiency.
✓ Glorious failure over boring success.

▸ TYPE HELP to get basic commands
▸ TYPE DIR, LIST, or LS (some of those three should work) to poke around.
▸ TYPE RESTART if things get messy.
▸ TYPE EXIT to crawl back to safety (it will not work).

Note:

Command buffer is volatile.
Typos are part of the ritual.
Not all modules respond. Some just stare back.

Good luck...
... and remember:

— The web used to be a weird and fun place for curious people. Let’s keep it that way.