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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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549 points thecr0w | 1 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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mmanfrin ◴[08 Dec 25 03:42 UTC] No.46188038[source]▶
I yearn for those days. CSS was a mistake. Tables and DHTML is all one needs.
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bluSCALE4 ◴[08 Dec 25 04:38 UTC] No.46188380[source]▶
CSS was a mistake? JavaScript was a mistake, specifically JavaScript frameworks.
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tobyjsullivan ◴[08 Dec 25 04:42 UTC] No.46188415[source]▶
JavaScript? HTML and HTTP were the real mistakes.
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someguyiguess ◴[08 Dec 25 05:09 UTC] No.46188596[source]▶
HTML and HTTP? TCP was the real mistake.
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1. insaider ◴[08 Dec 25 05:48 UTC] No.46188823[source]▶
"In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and has widely been considered as a bad move."