in the 'good ol days', sites used to have these little background music files stored as MIDI files, which would autoplay as soon as you entered the site

like all good things, people with nothing to live for but money started abusing them...

This site needs to be removed from Hacker News.

Counterpoint: this is vintage internet and needs to be preserved and shared

I haven’t seen a tripod/lycos site in the wild in well over a decade