Weeeeeee!

May 5, 2016 5:04 PM

HTML form Rube Goldberg machine, with some musical accompaniment.
posted by brundlefly (9 comments total)

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the interface for Metafilter 3.0.
posted by Nanukthedog at 5:20 PM on May 5, 2016 [5 favorites]

table based layout! burn the witch
posted by thelonius at 5:20 PM on May 5, 2016

With the addition of a blood pressure cuff and a basic pulse oximeter, this also works as a Voight-Kampf test for UI Designers.
posted by cortex at 5:21 PM on May 5, 2016 [12 favorites]

(sweats, blinks rapidly)
posted by ardgedee at 5:35 PM on May 5, 2016

The music is perfect!
posted by moonmilk at 5:40 PM on May 5, 2016

That was charming.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 5:49 PM on May 5, 2016

JOY. Both existential joy and OCD itch scratching joy.
posted by chasles at 6:53 PM on May 5, 2016

Huh. Today I learned there's such a thing as a <progress> element.

(...which apparently doesn't get stripped by the HTML filter here? But I don't want to be the one to give the mods a hard time in this thread...)
posted by NMcCoy at 4:43 AM on May 6, 2016

This is similar to things I remember seeing on the internet back in the day--mid-to-late 90s, but which I don't seem to run across randomly anymore. Very likely just my lack of digging around, but I definitely miss seeing things like this that people seem to simply do for the fun of it.
posted by kidkilowatt at 9:34 AM on May 6, 2016