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Make the Internet Great Again… Again?
Hey everyone, this is me, Alex.
There‘s so many new faces, I'm pretty sure some of you have no idea who I am.
Which is fine. Sometimes I'm not entirely sure myself.
I'm Alex from the Apple team, working on our macOS browser. And I thought I'd make it greater again.
What would you expect from a macOS browser hack days project?
They say Jesus was a hacker. Performing live demos: turning water into wine. Accepting some cookies.
Not bad for a Hack Days project, eh?
Alright, the show time!
[Start the screen sharing with https://infiniteslop.ai/ open]
Hey, I hope you can hear the sound. [turn off sound]
But seriously. What's happening to the world?
AI everywhere. Too much information. Everything looks the same.
[https://liquid-glass-eta.vercel.app/webgl.html]
Everything is a Liquid Ass. And BEIGE!
Sometimes I just want to burn it all down.
[Click Fire — show the new fire animation]
MUCH better!
Let's do it again!
[Click Fire — show the new fire animation]
Where shall we Start now?
[Click Start]
Sometimes you just want to run away, back to something familiar.
[Click Run → enter Bookmark search mode]
Or Search for happiness
Or maybe you just need someone to talk someone to.
[Run → AI — open Duck.ai -> ask "Is it normal to miss the internet from 1998?"]**
But maybe the problem isn't the internet.
Maybe it's how we see it.
I wish I could change the settings of my life.
[Open Settings]
Change how the world Appears.
[Appearance]
What if we could go back?
[Select Retro theme]
Somewhere like THIS. When buttons looked like buttons. Windows looked like windows.
[Open New Tab Page]
Smells like Christmas mornings, hot chocolate, and mandarins. Back when everybody we miss were still around…
[Open https://www.spacejam.com/1996/]
Remember when websites had personality?
When every page told you someone had paid attention to it…
And speaking of the little things…
[Shrink browser window; Hover over a link near the bottom-left corner]
Even the link tooltip now knows when to move out of your way.
It respects your space.
Your privacy.
Just Start…
[Click Start]
And ask for Help.
[Click Help]
And here you go.
Your protection. Your privacy. Your peace of mind.