never thought, before seeing the antonymph site, that "web demoscene" could really be considered a thing. I'm certain now that people have to've tried doing it before, if not actually done anything this involved, but this was, a lot. very well timed, and constantly giving this feeling of "these folks have definitely seen amiga / commodore demos before and they get it"
I'm not really the sort to "get" mlp related things, but antonymph sits in this weird spot for me of "I lived through this exact time of the Internet and it's how I got used to using it as a social thing, instead of just a place to look stuff up and download shareware." the '00s is a whole second wave of nostalgia for me, after the '90s. it's when I started letting myself enjoy things again.
also, it's fine if people's touchstone for this kind of stuff is "homestuck" even though people may wince at that. it's, whatever. homestuck was going after that same '00s era, complete with the AIM like chat interface and that limited color to everything. so, of course it'd be familiar, if that's where people first saw it!
... but yeah. while I'm kinda jaded about "web tech" and hope some day we find something to replace all this that isn't a broken mess, seeing the web used to make art again was a nice touch. more of this, please.
