Comment by anthk
7 days ago
Uhm, you forgot ANSI animations from BBS, stuff like the BB demo from AALIB, aafire, midnight commander with tons of colours, mocp with the same...
Flashy stuff for the terminal it's not new. Heck, in late 90's/early 00's everyone tired e17 and eterm at least once. And then KDE3 with XRender extensions with more fancy stuff on terminals and the like, plus compositor effects with xcompmgr and later, compiz.
But I'm old fashioned. I prefer iomenu+xargs+nvi and custom macros.
Some really old heads told me that syntax highlighting is a gimmick. I can't imagine looking at code without it.