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Ha, I love that you are so condescending about what he made, and one of the first comments on the video you linked to was "Yawn. We did better in 256 byte microcode strings in 1986."

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I didn't read it as condescension, but observation: old demos were able to take advantage of a lot that's not available to JavaScript.

But isn't the whole challenge of a demo to make the most of limited resources?

Yes, sorry. Just missing the golden days ;)

Yeah, my first reaction: since when JS is a valid target for demos? ;).

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