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Vandalizing My Own Wikipedia Experience: A 90s Cyberpunk GeoCities Makeover

Paige Bailey on March 20, 2026

Wikipedia is a marvel. It is the Library of Alexandria of our time, a meticulously curated repository of human knowledge, wrapped in a user interfa...
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Jess Lee Google AI

This is outrageous 😻

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Swift

🤣 this is so on-brand. What a great idea. Thanks for sharing!

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mKalic • Edited

i'm surprised browsers still tolerate <marquee> honestly. feels like it should've been banned along with blink tags or something. @slope 4

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Thaly Gutierrez

I'd read your X. I couldn't stop laughing when I read this title😆. Long Live GeoCities! #ImOld🦕

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Mykola Kondratiuk

ok the GeoCities angle is sending me. I had a similar obsession last year trying to add user scripts to make various boring dashboards feel less like DMV waiting rooms. there is something genuinely therapeutic about making your browser yours again. also "list of animals with fraudulent diplomas" is doing a lot of work in this article

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klement Gunndu

Using URL Context to ground the model in Wikipedia's scripting docs is a neat workaround for hallucinated API calls. The 40ms throttle on the sparkle trail is the kind of detail that separates "it works" from "it doesn't tank the tab."

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Robert Teminian

Oh my...... 🤣

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Mr. Lin Uncut

curious how you handled Wikipedia's use of dynamic content loading because injecting a full 90s GeoCities CSS overhaul onto a page that renders differently across articles sounds like it would break in interesting ways on certain page structures

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Travis Drake

This is horrifying and yet I CAN'T LOOK AWAY! Love nonsense like this.