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Life & fun · June 4, 2019

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This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine

This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine launched on June 4, 2019 with 633 votes, #5 of 2,757 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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In plain words

This page is a self-referential HTML file that generates its own source code as output, created in 2019. It demonstrates the concept of a quine—a program that produces its own code—using only plain, minimalist HTML without styling or JavaScript. The project appeals to programmers and computer science enthusiasts interested in recursive programming concepts and code elegance. It serves as both a functional demonstration and an artistic exploration of how code can reference itself.

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One of my favorite things is to misuse technology in creative ways. Breaking the rules without breaking the rules. For example, a hobby project I built long ago was DOS-on-dope , a working Ruby-on-rails parody, billed as the last batch-file based MVC framework you'll ever need . And there was a console.log() adventure in which you played an old school console-adventure-game from inside the chrome developer tools. The world of esoteric programming is filled with examples of people stretching the rules to breaking point, and misusing technology in creative ways. In particular (for example) I love quines . Quines are programs which output their own source code. Life is a Quine. ...the tendency…from secretgeek.github.io

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