If you’ve seen any modern thriller or military-themed films, you’re familiar with text print-outs, which are frequently used to present a new scene or location in the movie. While they are intended to portray high-tech communication, these teletype effects derive from technology nearly 200 years old; today, it’s our goal to recreate them using web technologies. Most of the available scripts to do so are written in JQuery, which really isn’t needed in today’s browsers; instead, I’ll demonstrate a technique using plain JavaScript.