The blurb is still accurate – the homepage has no weather, no news, no sponsored links, etc. Google the company does advertising, but the search engine page itself is still really minimalist. I think a lot of people forget (or never knew) how incredibly cluttered and ugly search engines used to be:

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/uploaded/preview/excite-1996-preview.png

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/TRRJR0/lycos-is-a-search-engine-that-was-popular-in-the-1990s-TRRJR0.jpg

https://sm.mashable.com/mashable_me/image/default/uploads252fcard252fimage252f1530168252fe88d0a82-60be-4830-83_1u6w.png

What is this criticizing, exactly? The Google homepage is still incredibly spare.

Yeah, this post shows a tragic lack of familiarity with the concept of zoomies.

“How do you kill that which has no life?”

Beyond parody (for nearly a decade at this point).

During lockdown I played ECHO, which had been in my backlog for a few years after a stray recommendation I saw on MetaFilter. It was a surprisingly tight integration of beautiful and intriguing environmental/UI/sound design, gorgeous music, compelling yet minimalist storytelling (and voice acting), and a really strong gameplay loop of stealth, puzzle-solving, and the occasional panicky run-and-gun. Imagine my surprise when I read up on it after and learned it only sold a few thousand copies!

I strongly recommend playing it blind, but this trailer gives a good overview of the style and mechanics.

One of the greatest games of all time from a design and gameplay perspective. There’s a reason it’s in the MoMA. The soundtrack is an all-timer as well.

It’s also relatively new as a federal holiday, only added in 2021. Before that it was largely officially observed only in Texas and a handful of cities.

Engagement bait.

They should try to be funny/creative/clever, for one thing, and either using an existing format or creating a new one. This is literally just pictures and direct quotes from the Founders. Like the sidebar here says, “Random pictures do not qualify as memes.”

This is not a meme.

It’s literally the name of the bill.

Fun fact: In French, ChatGPT sounds like chat, j’ai pété (“cat, I farted”)

I wonder if this would include on-screen notifications.

Katamari Damacy. It has a reputation for being silly Japanese nonsense, but the gameplay is brilliant, the graphics are timeless, the soundtrack is incredible, and it has some surprising thematic depth.

This isn’t even Facebook-meme tier, it’s email-forward-from-90s-AOL-account tier. C’mon.

GIVE ME MORE SOLDIERS, NOBLE LEADER, SO WE MAY SHEATHE OUR SWORDS IN THE BEATING HEARTS OF OUR ENEMIES

• Katamari Damacy
• Halo 2
• Civilization II
• SimCity 2000
• Crazy Taxi

I love when mine acts like this, only to walk back up, roll over, and meow for more. If you didn’t want to be snuggled, you would run away! I can see through your lies, cat.

my cat is sad.

no one else in his family is a cat

we are all human except for him

he is excluded from most things

and no one tells him why

he just wants to play

and be loved

he looks at us with wonder

and disappointment

he says hello i am a cat what is my existence

what is that / why it and not me / please can you look at me and love me too

can i have some of your food please im sorry i dont like my food so much

do you want to play with my toys? this one is my favourite

do you like me

are we brothers

why didnt i grow up

why am i so small

can you help me be happy

where are you going

–Spencer Madsen