> It was purely decorative, but ugly decoration that only appealed to other brutalist architects, meant to trick people into thinking it was some "raw" construc

> It was purely decorative, but ugly decoration that only appealed to other brutalist architects, meant to trick people into thinking it was some "raw" construction element sticking out. That's really funny, because I've seen websites that tries to appeal to "hacker"/"minimalist" aesthetics doing the same thing. An example: the file-hosting service https://0x0.st https://0x0.st. When you try to visit a link to a non-existing file, it will crash with a trace message that exposes the offending code block from fhost.c. Wow, so RAW and BRUTAL. It's even written in C, so hacker-ish! Until you find out that the error message is fake: https://git.0x0.st/mia/0x0/src/branch/master/templates/404.html https://git.0x0.st/mia/0x0/src/branch/master/templates/404.h... The server is actually written in Python and it generates a randomized, fake C-looking trace message for its 404 page.