Greg Egan404 errors and blue screens of death are so boring, and even display-memory corruption looks a bit hackneyed. Tech should fail in more evocative ways, with glyphs coming unstuck and plummeting towards the bottom of the screen, burning up from friction as they descend.
jwz@gregeganSF I agree, I designed my 404 pages to create just as much anxiety as possible... (make sure you click) https://www.jwz.org/nope
Ian Angles@jwz @gregeganSF I'm glad I had the sound muted for that.
Then I went back and tried it again with the sound on, and I'm now glad in a different way.