You want your terminal to be awesome? Obsessed with pushing text mode to its limits? This is a collection of various terminal tools and effects to help you on your quest.

These are mostly useless but very pretty.

• zero – 3D Graphics Rendering Pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal.
• cxxmatrix – C++ Matrix: The Matrix Reloaded in Terminals (Number falls, Banners, Matrix rains, Conway's Game of Life and Mandelbrot set).
• awkaster – Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique.
• cbeams – A command-line program which draws pretty animated colored circles in the terminal.
• lolcat – Rainbows and unicorns! Transforms text into rainbow colors.
• parrotsay – The Party Parrot on your terminal.
• rice – rice, hax, etc.
• drawille – Pixel graphics in terminal with unicode braille characters.
• cmatrix – Terminal based "The Matrix" like implementation.

Useful tools but pretty nevertheless.

Monitoring tools:

• glances – Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
• gtop – System monitoring dashboard for terminal.
• vtop – Wow such top. So stats. More better than regular top.
• htop – htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.
• s-tui – Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility.
• wavemon – wavemon is an ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices.
• ngxtop – Real-time metrics for nginx server.

Others:

• tig – Text-mode interface for git.
• icdiff – Improved colored diff.
• pgcli – Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
• mycli – A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
• ccat – Colorizing cat (syntax highlighting).
• httpie – Modern command line HTTP client – user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc.
• cheat – cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.
• fzf – A command-line fuzzy finder.
• hexyl – A command-line hex viewer.
• bat – A cat(1) clone with wings.
• onefetch – Git repository summary on your terminal.
• thefuck – Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
• speedometer – Chart network TX/RX and file download rates on the console.

These work in the terminal but are streamed off the web.

• gameboy.live – A basic gameboy emulator with terminal "Cloud Gaming" support.
• parrot.live – Bringing animated parrots to terminals everywhere.
• wttr.in – The right way to check the weather.

• cool-retro-term – A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...