Win1998
win1998.comA buddy of mine made this site a long time ago. It is simple and fun. The page is not minified; making it easy to see how easy it is to have fun on the internt.
There is a secret in the code though, minified enough to be illegible.
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This decodes to "SEGFAULT ERROR".
The corrupted, glitchy text visual style is commonly known as Zalgo text, created by combining many special overlapping character symbols.
Ah the memories... I was doing in-home tech support and repair back in the day, and an elderly gentleman had let his seven year-old grandson use his Win 98 box unsupervised for 30 minutes or so. The end result looked just like win1998.com! I spent the better part of an afternoon trying to clean that thing and finally advised him to reinstall the OS.
Human-readable page source in 2026? Amazing, I love it!
That was unexpected.