Hey guys,
I'm trying to develop a lightweight chat/email-client between two Linux machines. The point is to make it as barebones-looking as possible, with a 1980s retro aesthetic. Think the green IBM text of the Matrix, or better yet, the game Defcon (especially the intro screen). Or, of course, the film WarGames. So I'm wondering, does anyone have any suggestions on how to do that? I was thinking of modifying a Python chat client a friend painstakingly wrote in Python that used curses, but I think to be honest I can just write a shell script that allows messages between the two machines, and outputs random flavor text (troop movement stats, ascii images, meaningful-looking code!) between transmissions. What commands would I need for that?
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advice.