> it's just a cultural thing and it's easy to make graphical applications with a TUI-like input model I agree with your points, but I think this part is an imp

> it's just a cultural thing and it's easy to make graphical applications with a TUI-like input model I agree with your points, but I think this part is an important aspect to it. Sure, people (or more likely "developers, writing for developers") could write GUIs which are as keyboard-oriented as TUIs. But I don't think there are many common examples. With TUIs, it's more likely to be keyboard focussed and support plaintext file formats. (Again, that seems cultural). Another advantage to TUIs is the flipside of "only 1 font size, limited font styles": with a TUI, the user can set the terminal emulator's colour scheme and font sizes. Sometimes this won't work well. But it's a degree of customisation you don't really get with standard GUI programs, and isn't common for flashy websites.