This was super fun! Only after quite a while I have noticed how much time I had spent playing with it, great job! If I may suggest something, a visual like in https://css-tricks.com/old-timey-terminal-styling/ would make it look even more retro-hax0r!

Related for work: Cool Retro Term (CRT) - an actual retro terminal for your day!

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term