These maps were largely a work by Steve McGeady, who later went on to be an executive at Intel. His testimony in the Microsoft antitrust trial in 1998 had a big impact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_McGeady
It is a 100% clone of the actual vt220 font, and therefore is the ultimate in green-screen retro awesomeness.
Basically, by getting this font and using it (esp on a BSD)
you have the original 'theme' for the Unix CLI, since pretty much everyone (yes being hyperbolic) used real UNIX (or 'BSD UNIX' as it was called before the suit) on VAX with DEC terminals around this time when most of the core CLI tools that make up the core of the system to this day were being developed.. Things just look 'right'.
As a vt220 owner and amateur Unixologist,
I am very glad for this font.
Mike Koss wrote an Apple ][ terminal emulator called "The Terminal" in 1981 that displayed 70 columns by 32 rows on the 270 x 192 pixel hires screen in a 3x5 font he designed. That's how I viewed ITS, Unix and the ARPANET for many years, until I finally got an 80 column card. squint
I bet that could font could show the whole map on one page!
I am glad I am not the only one who felt this. I immediately thought 'ooh what font is this? it's better than other VT220 fonts I've seen' - looked in the css, got the url, and um, stole, it :)
What was the fix? If it was the name of a specific fixed-width font, you should add "monospace" as the final alternative for the CSS. This allows the browser to pick a suitable font among the ones present on the client machine. (For a list of the other generic font family names to use in other instances, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-family)
I used to use TheDraw all the time to make screens for games, my bbs, and just general stuffing around! Is the author still around? Would love to send him a belated registration fee!
