Users react with irony and concern about the website content
4 Sep 21 1:39 PM · 2d ago · 5 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 4
Some commenters note the incongruity of running a 1980s computer for modern AI-generated content, while others question the legitimacy of the site.
“A PDP-11 serving adverts for an AI-written site in 2026 was not on my bingo card. Imagine being brought back from the dead for that.”
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I miss my 11/83, which was connected to my network through a SLIP connection to a Power Mac running Yellow Dog Linux and connecting to the Internet via dialup.It was the late '90s, and it shared my small apartment with a DEC AlphaServer running VMS, an HP 3000 running MPE, an IBM System/36, an IBM AS/400, a Wang OIS, a SparcStation 1, and a…
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I will never understand why, but the story of Reddit Place ( https://web.archive.org/web/20170409173246/http://sudoscript... ) certainly supports this :(
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I posted this to twostopbits. Community over there is small but devoted to such willful acts of restoration
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A PDP-11 serving adverts for an AI-written site in 2026 was not on my bingo card. Imagine being brought back from the dead for that.
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What in the AI slop is this website? Looks like it's trying to get me to download malware.
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