May 23, 2008 – 8:43 am

Dorian Garson from Startty.com provides a telnet only service which scrolls text of selected information ‘widgets’ onto almost any connected retro device that can display text.

If you have a dumb text terminal or old doorstop CPU unable to run any type of meaningful GUI interface, StarTTY.com provides a simple telnet service that displays updated Internet information and turning the devices into live Information kiosks.

Calendar

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

Todo List

News

Phase of the Moon

Recent Big Earthquakes

Stocks

This Day in History

Time and Date

UPS Package Tracking

Weather Conditions: USA

Weather Conditions: World

Weather Forecast: USA

Weather Forecast: World

Word of the Day

To begin, you first register for a username through the website to obtain your own login. From there, you can configure your preferences such as screen size, your time zone, and the type of information you want displayed on your screen:

Once you have it configured, you fire up your terminal device and telnet to startty port 5000 and login using your username. Web 0.1!

(BTW, you can do this on your bloated windows boxes by selecting start->run->telnet startty.com 50000)

So if you have a spare dumb terminal, or an old cpu that can telnet, you can proudly display your retro devices displaying current news to the delight of family members and wives alike.