It's a shame there's the "This site is a parody" footer, I'd be curious if LLMs were to actually fall for this without it, especially if that were to depend on model size.
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.
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.
This has got to be one of the most stupid comments I've read this week. This is a page with random lazy-loaded images splattered all around, the load and render time difference if this used React would be not more than 10 milliseconds.
On the other hand, since the typical (!) React site has no fallbacks whatsoever for noscript, even though a specific HTML tag exists for this very purpose, the React site stays a white page, one can wait an arbitrarily long time and it still won't work or change, and the browser tab gets closed.
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
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!!
I agree. It's in the uncanny valley territory for me because things like the layout, structure and information hierarchy have modern sensibilities but then it has a shotgun blast of retro paint and the vibe just feels a little bit off.
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.
> 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.
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.
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
That <div class="marquee-box"> with `animation: scroll-left 18s linear infinite;` is just plain disrespect to the still working <marquee> element.
It's a shame there's the "This site is a parody" footer, I'd be curious if LLMs were to actually fall for this without it, especially if that were to depend on model size.
There is something unnerving about using an LLM to generate a site...that is a joke about AI embodiment.
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.
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.
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
That is a massive website, and still loads quicker/smaller than an entry level React site.
Well, yeah... because it's mostly 5-10KB gifs that are lazy-loaded on scroll.
This has got to be one of the most stupid comments I've read this week. This is a page with random lazy-loaded images splattered all around, the load and render time difference if this used React would be not more than 10 milliseconds.
On the other hand, since the typical (!) React site has no fallbacks whatsoever for noscript, even though a specific HTML tag exists for this very purpose, the React site stays a white page, one can wait an arbitrarily long time and it still won't work or change, and the browser tab gets closed.
The 500 people browsing internet without JavaScript enabled by default would have to enable it. Difficult times.
So many of those GIFs I had on a hard drive at some point, wow.
Surprisingly, despite all that colorful circus, it reminds me times when we read web pages. Like... the entirety of them.
you'll probably love this then, https://hellnet.work/8831/
a huge archive of 88x31 buttons scraped from the GeoCities archives.
Gosh this gave a big myspace flashback
This website is so much faster than 99% of the modern macbook-focused websites with all those fades and css transitions.
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
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.
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.
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!!
The testimonials are superb, thanks for the laughs
I’m going to submit this to Mirsky’s Worst of the Web.
Wonderful piece of art. Excellent callback to what the web used to look like when I was a teenager.
It reminded me of James "Kibo" Parry's Happyweb.
Ah yes. Emojis. The hallmark of every GeoCities site.
> [a human] Can taste pizza (regrets it)
False advertising, no human has regretted pizza, even the lactose intolerant.
I'm lactose intolerant and I second this message.
There are dozens of us!
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.
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.
I agree. It's in the uncanny valley territory for me because things like the layout, structure and information hierarchy have modern sensibilities but then it has a shotgun blast of retro paint and the vibe just feels a little bit off.
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.
> 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.
It does exist, such as Human API. It seems far fetched initially but makes sense from the AI perspective.
https://thehumanapi.com/
@ those reviews
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/human-api-get-paid-by-ai/id675...
It's just text-recruiter ghosting in another guise
Mechanical Turk closed too early honestly. Give it an mcp server - done!
Spoilers for the movies 'Her' and 'Bladerunner 2049':
Both portray a love interest AI hiring a human proxy for intimacy with the protagonist.
There must be agents already ordering Doordash meals or Uber rides.
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...
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.
ChatGPT does nothing special when accessing this page.
check the pod bay doors
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
Cruelty Squad called
That, or Hypnospace Outlaw.
To be honest I was expecting way more <blink>
Why is it trying to load widevine?
spotify embed, probably?
Why is this 'Honeypot'?
It's honeypot for humans trying to enjoy quirky websites made by other humans.
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.
> 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?
Claude: "do I dream of electric sheep?"
It's a joke.
Because it’s a test that an LLM will fail by trying to obtain the advertised service I suppose.
I tried it on all major models and it just tells me it a satire website. Would like to know what it fails on.
Would they still fail if it were a professional quality site, without the parody disclaimer at the bottom?
more of stuff like this on the web please
What's the clue?
How it really feels to change gender
How it really feels to chew 5 Gum
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
Surprisingly good answer from Claude here... Boringly so.
It seems not to notice the absurd, unrealistic nature of the webpage. Just the surface.
Lynx optimized website accidentally involves a QR code in a slop cannon trap. The reader is impressed by the effort.
Good one!
This is brilliant.
This is pure gold :)