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Make the Internet Great Again… Again?
Hey everyone, I'm Alex.
We've grown quite a bit, so there's a good chance some of you have no idea who am I.
Which is fine. Sometimes I'm not entirely sure myself.
I work on our macOS browser. And for these Hack Days, I thought I'd make it a little bit greater Again.
Again?
[Pause]
They say Jesus was a simple hacker. Took a little water… Turned it into wine… accepted some Cookies… Pretty impressive for a Hack Days project!
[Start the screen sharing with https://infiniteslop.ai/ open]
But seriously… how did the world get so crazy?
AI is everywhere. Information is coming at us faster than we can process it. Everything is getting smarter, faster, more complicated…
And somehow, everything is starting to look exactly the same.
[https://liquid-glass-eta.vercel.app/webgl.html]
Everything is a Liquid Ass. Transparent panels, floating buttons, rounded corners…
!BEIGE!
You know what? 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]
But where can we even Start now?
[Click Start]
Sometimes you just want to run away, back to something familiar.
[Click Run → enter Bookmark search mode]
Something that keeps you going.
[Enter Going -> open DuckDuckGoing bookmark]
Or Search for something
[Run → Search]
That actually makes you happy.
[type "ducklings", show results]
There we go. Ducks. The internet still has some good stuff.
And when even ducks aren't enough… sometimes you just need someone to talk to.
[Run → AI — open Duck.ai -> ask "Is it normal to miss the internet from 1998?"]**
But maybe the real problem isn't the internet.
Maybe it's how we look at it.
I wish there was a way to get into the settings of this whole life.
[Open Settings]
Change how the world Appears.
[Appearance]
What if we could go back?
Back before everything became glass. Back when buttons looked like buttons. Windows looked like windows. And you could actually tell where one thing ended and another began.
[Select Retro theme]
Something like THIS.
[Open New Tab Page]
Smells like Christmas mornings, hot chocolate, and mandarins. Back when everybody we miss were still around…
Maa, can I miss the school today?
[Open https://www.spacejam.com/1996/]
Remember when websites had personality? When every page felt like a place someone had actually built?
And speaking of the little things…
[Shrink browser window; Hover over a link near the bottom-left corner]
Even the link tooltip knows when it's in your way now, and moves out of the way.
Imagine that — a UI element that actually respects your space.
Respects your privacy...
You just need to Start
[Click Start]
And ask for Help.
[Click Help]
And here you go.
Your protection. Your privacy. Your peace of mind.