byte 2 - A Hypertext Typsetish Markup?

I explore terminology, and intent of this contraption. It involves grids of texts, not sizes of paper or screens. It is a typeset method that can favor monospace fonts, but can also be a way to convey messages in different typographical ways with an easy method to get it out.

2025-01-31 by thejikz

The goal is Grids of Characters

This is the main tenant of the text display on the client side. The client being safe viewing down to a TI-84 calculator. That isn't a requirement, but the markup text makes this simple enough to implement into a protocol string in my noob opinion- it should be curl-able actually if your other end was running the service and display could handle it. I am new to all of this, it is all word soup to me. I will do best to not butcher terminalogical items, but one should get where it is going if it is something interesting enough to them.

Internet of things level I think

I believe there are enough public wi-fi locations to run a simple public facing server on a vps, and have a simple text chat between low level tech devices, like RPI0, something conceivibly solar powered and runs a lean ass OS with the minimal browser to access the means of entering text, displaying it on the spec't grid (which is fully negotiable on both sides with this).

Tags: smolweb, lowtech, asciiart, unicode, languages, writing, layout