Love this stuff. I wonder what it's like for someone too young to remember the constraints that the design references. Like the cyberpunk fast scrolling effect

Love this stuff. I wonder what it's like for someone too young to remember the constraints that the design references. Like the cyberpunk fast scrolling effect is a reference to 300baud terminals being dog slow, and the idea that text could zip in that fast implied something fast and powerful. The image loading screens are complex and fast, like a kind of arpeggio of the individual steps sped up. As though to say, "It's doing the thing, fast, powerful, and specific." It's like old xterm boot processes where by the time they finished, each step was confidence that things were right in the world. What I love about the whole retro cyberpunk aesthetic is it is essentially heroic, with anti-hero origins, and the symbology bundles up so much of what I hope the older generations of hackers are able to pass on.