> My terminal can [...] use the clipboard.

Yes, but the TUI application running in it can't - unless using non-portable side channels such as pbcopy or xclip. Copying text is limited to what's visible on your screen (and have fun if it's drawn inside a widget). When pasting, you're dumping the text as if it was typed in. Also, have fun with Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V.

> You might be limited in pictures [...]

That's right, sixels are indeed 1980s technology, seems like VT200 can do that.

But you know what I mean. It can't do audio, video, HDR pictures, precise mouse motion, accessibility, or even recognise shift+alt (ran out of bits in ASCII). It's a serial link, and using a side channel is just cheating.

Sure, I'm not going to use my terminal to watch HD movies in. Nor am I going to use it to browse the web. But we're being a bit obtuse here in thinking the terminal is going to do everything. There is no single tool that solves all problems. Not even the computer, as general as it is. That's okay.

Being terminally terminal doesn't mean I only use the terminal and go headless on all my machines. It is my main interface with my computers but I'm writing to you from Firefox. Nor am I going to play steam games in it. But most of the time I'm on my computer I'm not playing games or watching movies. Even with web browsing 99% of what I'm doing I don't actually need these things.

I'd love to have a web that is much more minimal. We don't need to go to walls of text like the 80's, nor even as stripped as HN (which is very lightweight), but there is a nice elegance to more minimal pages (more than just aesthetics) and the zippy experience is almost universally appreciated.

And again, a lot has changed from the 80's and no, a VT200 cannot create the images I see on my machine. I'm not looking at pixelated junk. When I'm running chafa I'm getting something quite similar to what I'm seeing if I open the picture through my file manager. I'm sure if I zoomed in I could tell the difference but that's not my usual workload.