GoKawiilDeveloper details hand-coded ANSI curl site, notes inspirations trinkey.com and proot.party now offline
A blogger published a technical walkthrough explaining how they built a terminal-friendly 'curl' version of their website, where visitors run commands like curl nytpu.com to view ANSI-formatted pages directly in a terminal. The author credits the idea to earlier curl sites by trinkey and strongsand, though an October update notes both of those original sites are no longer functional. Unlike those examples, which reportedly generate pages dynamically using a library like ratatui, this author hand-wrote the ANSI escape codes for their entire blog rather than just a page or two.
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The post highlights a niche but persistent corner of internet culture where developers build alternative, minimalist interfaces to their content for terminal users, echoing older protocols like Gopher. The fact that the two sites that inspired this project have since gone offline suggests such curl-based sites may be fragile hobby projects rather than maintained services, which could explain why the author felt compelled to document the technique before it's forgotten.
- A blogger shared a step-by-step method for creating a curl-accessible, ANSI-formatted version of a personal website.
- The technique was inspired by trinkey.com and proot.party, both of which are no longer functional as of October 2026.
- Unlike the dynamically generated inspirations, this author manually wrote ANSI escape codes for the site's entire blog archive.
Source: nytpu.com, 2026-10-14
Published there as: “Fancy Curl Sites”
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