This is a simple concept: "ASCII Theater plays movies as text, directly in Terminal." That's it. They add this message as well: "A single line of code begins playing a new movie every day ...

Head over to the ASCII Theater website, then copy the string of code displayed near the top of the window, paste it into Command Prompt (or Terminal if you’re using a Mac), then hit Enter and ...

Bottom line: Repurposing ... the typewriter as a Linux terminal although admittedly, functionality is somewhat limited. The contraption is quite handy for creating ASCII art, however, as Riley ...