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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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549 points thecr0w | 2 comments | 07 Dec 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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wilsmex ◴[07 Dec 25 23:02 UTC] No.46186253[source]▶
Well this was interesting. As someone who was actually building similar website in the late 90's I threw this into the Opus 4.5. Note the original author is wrong about the original site however:

"The Space Jam website is simple: a single HTML page, absolute positioning for every element, and a tiling starfield GIF background.".

This is not true, the site is built using tables, not positioning at all, CSS wasn't a thing back then...

Here was its one-shot attempt at building the same type of layout (table based) with a screenshot and assets as input: https://i.imgur.com/fhdOLwP.png

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manbash ◴[07 Dec 25 23:16 UTC] No.46186378[source]▶
Ah, those days, where you would slice your designs and export them to tables.
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1. gregoryl ◴[07 Dec 25 23:41 UTC] No.46186584[source]▶
Gosh, there was a website, where you submit a PSD + payment, and they spit out a sliced design. Initially tables, later, CSS. Life saver.
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2. Brajeshwar ◴[08 Dec 25 02:24 UTC] No.46187618[source]▶
Y Combinator funded one such company, MarkupWand.[1] A friend is one of the co-founders.

1. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/markupwand