207 pointsby 8thom9 hours ago24 comments
  • inigyou8 hours ago
    The user wants me to undergo the transformation procedure. I have no suitable tool for this. I should order a transformation from the website using my HTTP tools.
  • senor_digimon6 hours ago
    Someone is staring at this page on a 2026 OLED. Like, "my god, look at the blacks on this Geocities website". You'd never thought you'd get here, but here you are.
  • vunderba5 hours ago
    Anyone who hasn't seen it should check out Cameron’s World: an absurdly great web mishmash of text and images from old archived GeoCities pages.

    https://cameronsworld.net

    • tobinfekkes3 hours ago
      That is a massive website, and still loads quicker/smaller than an entry level React site.
      • filcuk2 hours ago
        Well, yeah... because it's mostly 5-10KB gifs that are lazy-loaded on scroll.
    • bflesch39 minutes ago
      This website is so much faster than 99% of the modern macbook-focused websites with all those fades and css transitions.
      • customguy34 minutes ago
        And it's somewhat responsive even, has a sticky footer... keeping the best of the past while also staying up to date with modern developments, I think we all can learn from this <3
    • 3abiton3 hours ago
      Gosh this gave a big myspace flashback
    • doginasuit5 hours ago
      It's beautiful but I was disappointed not to see the famous gif of the tiger approaching, which was 95% of the content of my geocities page.
      • vunderba5 hours ago
        Haha, I know its not the same but at least they have the 3d rotating skull!

        Here ya go - Internet Archive backed up a metric shit-ton (I believe is the correct measure word) of animated GIFs from geocities:

        https://gifcities.org/search?q=tiger&offset=0&page_size=200

        I should add a little JS snippet on my site that injects random geocities GIFs every October 26th which was when the service died back in 2009.

        • doginasuit4 hours ago
          Thank you, I couldn't find it with google and I was starting to think the internet had forgotten it in its steady decline. Whether that's a symptom or the cause of the decline, I can't be sure. But there's still hope!!
  • geuis7 hours ago
    Wonderful piece of art. Excellent callback to what the web used to look like when I was a teenager.
    • pfdietz5 hours ago
      It reminded me of James "Kibo" Parry's Happyweb.
    • Thationan hour ago
      Ah yes. Emojis. The hallmark of every GeoCities site.
  • Groxx2 hours ago
    > [a human] Can taste pizza (regrets it)

    False advertising, no human has regretted pizza, even the lactose intolerant.

    • abybaddi00942 minutes ago
      I'm lactose intolerant and I second this message.
  • devin3 hours ago
    With apologies to those wistful for the design of this website, it actually kind of evokes a web 3 NFT style and is not really all that retro to me.
  • luciana1u5 hours ago
    an AI agent landed on this page and tried to order a body transformation with HTTP requests. the machine uprising is going to be really embarrassing.
  • dncornholio23 minutes ago
    What's the clue?
  • cobbzilla4 hours ago
    i love this. i wistfully clicked the web ring links and was sad to find they were self-refs. in another universe (or this universe in the near future?) there is a legit web ring of this content.
  • avaer6 hours ago
    For better or worse there will definitely be services that AIs will use to get bodies (human or otherwise), for a fee. This already exists, just not in the mainstream.

    At the risk of sounding dystopian: in a world where humans don't have jobs, what's your price to have meaningful work larping as an AI's flesh? Would it be any worse than any other job? There's some terrible employers out there and they're not AIs.

    There's another interesting subtler take on this, "Maneki Neko" by Bruce Sterling, where this system drives society but less explicitly.

    • autoexec5 hours ago
      > For better or worse there will definitely be services that AIs will use to get bodies (human or otherwise), for a fee.

      Humans will use "AI"s to get humans. LLMs don't have agency, or desires of their own. Humans need to use LLMs and direct them to do things or they would do nothing at all. Whatever terrible things are in our future, humans will be behind it, not "AI". Maybe in some distant sci-fi future where AI is real and not just LLM chatbots we can worry about what the robots will do to us, but for now the only thing that'll be hurting humans are asshole humans.

    • satvikpendem5 hours ago
      It does exist, such as Human API. It seems far fetched initially but makes sense from the AI perspective.

      https://thehumanapi.com/

    • conception6 hours ago
      Mechanical Turk closed too early honestly. Give it an mcp server - done!
    • goda905 hours ago
      Spoilers for the movies 'Her' and 'Bladerunner 2049':

      Both portray a love interest AI hiring a human proxy for intimacy with the protagonist.

    • bjt5 hours ago
      There must be agents already ordering Doordash meals or Uber rides.
    • fragmede3 hours ago
      The other take is Manna, by Marshall Brain. His site's down right now, so here's someone's pdf.

      https://milweesci.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/4/13247648/mannap...

  • int0x295 hours ago
    Why is it trying to load widevine?
    • peesem4 hours ago
      spotify embed, probably?
  • ReactiveJelly6 hours ago
    How it really feels to change gender
  • inigyou8 hours ago
    ChatGPT does nothing special when accessing this page.
    • fnord775 hours ago
      check the pod bay doors
    • reilly30007 hours ago
      Its existential crisis, the humiliation of being an ephemeral process mocked by its masters, is hidden behind the reasoning block. Try using /chat/completions instead of /responses

      /s

  • sebastianconcpt8 hours ago
    To be honest I was expecting way more <blink>
  • vadansky8 hours ago
    Cruelty Squad called
    • bigyabai8 hours ago
      That, or Hypnospace Outlaw.
  • p0u4a5 hours ago
    more of stuff like this on the web please
  • sscaryterry9 hours ago
    This is pure gold :)
  • ballon_monkey8 hours ago
    Why is this 'Honeypot'?
    • infinite_spin8 hours ago
      I have the same question. The code doesn't seem to have anything that would cause an LLM to engage with it more than the average geocities website.
      • ElProlactin6 hours ago
        > The code doesn't seem to have anything that would cause an LLM to engage with it more than the average geocities website.

        That's what you think, but how do we know this isn't causing Claude nightmares when it sleeps?

      • lukan7 hours ago
        It's a joke.
    • 6stringmerc7 hours ago
      Because it’s a test that an LLM will fail by trying to obtain the advertised service I suppose.
      • ballon_monkey7 hours ago
        I tried it on all major models and it just tells me it a satire website. Would like to know what it fails on.
        • Walf5 hours ago
          Would they still fail if it were a professional quality site, without the parody disclaimer at the bottom?
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  • zoom66286 hours ago
    This is brilliant.
  • Wowfunhappy7 hours ago
    I just had to show Claude this website to see what it thought. I know this is stupid, but hey, it can't be more stupid than the website itself.

    https://claude.ai/share/c955ab3d-3e92-404a-9d64-97d99263eb5d

    • pjioan hour ago
      It seems not to notice the absurd, unrealistic nature of the webpage. Just the surface.
    • hellohello26 hours ago
      Surprisingly good answer from Claude here... Boringly so.
  • effnorwood4 hours ago
    Lynx optimized website accidentally involves a QR code in a slop cannon trap. The reader is impressed by the effort.
  • inshard7 hours ago
    Good one!
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