GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet

I'm so incredibly tired of the monospace glowy-text black-background cursor-trail breathless emdash prompt-repeating nonsense text Claude artifacts getting posted here. Not a single paragraph here reads as human-written English.

Re: GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet

#5

Post by cebert » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

1bpp wrote: post #4

I'm so incredibly tired of the monospace glowy-text black-background cursor-trail breathless emdash prompt-repeating nonsense text Claude artifacts getting posted here. Not a single paragraph here reads as human-written English.

I agree. I’m not impressed by this at all, and then there are some weird AI generated comments by new account accounts on this thread, too, which I don’t understand.

Re: GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet

#6

Post by VCFundedGenYer » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

I'm a little perplexed by this. The "simulator" does not match an actual Windows 98 machine, and is lacking in a lot of the aesthetics. I get the idea, but I have to ask - was this vibe coded? Kind of goes against the website's general aesthetic and ethos.

Re: GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet

#7

Post by tosti » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

VCFundedGenYer wrote: post #6

I'm a little perplexed by this. The "simulator" does not match an actual Windows 98 machine, and is lacking in a lot of the aesthetics. I get the idea, but I have to ask - was this vibe coded? Kind of goes against the website's general aesthetic and ethos.

It's pretty good imho. The obvious thing they tend to get wrong is the fonts and the way they're rendered.

Re: GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet

#8

Post by mananaysiempre » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 6:25 PM UTC

cebert wrote: post #5

1bpp wrote: post #4

I'm so incredibly tired of the monospace glowy-text black-background cursor-trail breathless emdash prompt-repeating nonsense text Claude artifacts getting posted here. Not a single paragraph here reads as human-written English.

I agree. I’m not impressed by this at all, and then there are some weird AI generated comments by new account accounts on this thread, too, which I don’t understand.

> there are some weird AI generated comments by new[] accounts on this thread

When you have showdead on (as I’m guessing you do), there are weird AI-generated comments by new accounts on every front-page thread, so I wouldn’t ascribe too much significance to that part.