GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet

13 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by classichasclass

7 Comments

VCFundedGenYer

8 hours ago

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.

tosti

8 hours ago

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

1bpp

8 hours ago

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.

cebert

8 hours ago

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.

mananaysiempre

7 hours ago

> 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.