Xterm was created in 1984.

yes. Xterm, gnome-terminal are common ways of accessing it.

The line is going 'down hill' from left to right

Use ssh to log into the bravo system. Then, inside the SSH session, export the DISPLAY variable with the IP address and display number of your local system.

Then, start up xterm on the bravo system. The results will display on your local system.

For this to work, your system must be running in an X windows environment or have an emulator.

There are a couple different "terminal" programs, you can either find them in your desktop managers "start" menu or you can press Alt+F2 to bring up the run menu and in KDE enter "konsole" and gnome "gnome-terminal" or you may also have "xterm"