Telescopic text

Despite being a longtime web user, telescopic text is one of these things I’ve recently discovered ❤️

Try clicking the blue-lined words below:

In fact, it was Brandel Zachernuk, a very talented creative technologist & conversationalist, who showed me telescopictext.org while waiting for Frode Hegland, who was at the 50th Anniversary of Internet accompanied by very epic computer scientists like Alan Kay and Vint Cerf , during a Future Of Text videocall , which happens weekly and can be followed here .

Needless to say, I was baffled. How could I have missed this cute way of compressing text?
My friend Matt wonderfully described telescopic text as: “Every desire for further enquiry by a physical action. Self authorship of the experience” .

Finally, this is the little brother of the jump-link (the HTML anchor tag), I’ve always hoped for.

Anyways, I could not help myself. So I’ve tried re-creating a CSS-only version. Eventually I’ve came up with several telescopic text-variations as code , in the form of this codepen available to anyone ❤️.