> Also, what’s the first problem?

It's a reference to jwz's saying "some people, when they have a problem think 'I know, I'll solve it with regular expressions!'. Now they have two problems" (not an exact quote).

The user posting this makes me think the whole post was a joke ;)

u/mhb was making a joke by referencing a famous jwz, all-purpose joke.

This. The monitors of the time were called monochrome. Most of them came in green or amber.

But this site is super hard to read on mobile and really hurts your eyes. I get the nostalgia value but there should be a more usable version for the users just discovering it for the first time.

That fact may cause sites like archive.org to pass over some of the content. Ergo we need to make a P2P mirror of the content. A ZeroNet port seems about right for a site with hundreds of pages and close to 58K textfiles.

Reading that takes me back to the mid-80s, when I encountered a port of emacs for the Amiga and I was just bewildered by it - in the age of GUIs, something developed before microcomputers and mice seemed like an pointless atavism.