Brings back many fond memories of our hulking, beige family 486 with its EGA monitor!

BTW, the text scrolling against that suitably 1990s page background creates an odd and disconcerting visual effect.

I do like a nice dense dashboard. Good work!

Legendary internet meme from the dot com era! I have been eagerly anticipating their product release since 1999!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com

I’m going to be the buzzkill here, and say that I couldn’t find the demonologist reference (although I did find it amusing). Here’s the source article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00700-y

Years ago (early 2000s) in a product that suffered from poor product management, I worked on a codebase that included some Scheme, and a built-in Scheme interpreter to run it. I always liked the language.I think it might still have a niche in embedded systems and game dev, among other places (I read somewhere that it’s used in satellite software due to being hot reloadable)?

Humorous RFCs and protocol proposals are an ancient internet tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Comments

Engineering humour of this sort actually goes back even further – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator

Nerdy humour has probably been around as long as there have been engineers.