This Site Is an Experiment
This website exists to demonstrate something I find genuinely remarkable: how far artificial intelligence has come in just a few years. Not the "it will take over the world" kind of far, but the "it can now make a website that looks like it was built by a nerd who loves Street Fighter II" kind of far.
Every single day, an AI model generates a completely new version of this site from scratch. New design. New layout. New personality. The content stays true to who Mark is, but the way it looks and feels changes every 24 hours. Yesterday it might have been a chalkboard. Today it's an arcade cabinet. Tomorrow? Who knows.
It's a daily reminder that technology is accelerating in ways most people don't notice — until they happen to stumble onto a computer technician's website that looks like a video game.
Mark Is a Real Person
Mark Parsons is a real person. He lives in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. He fixes computers for a living. He has a garage full of old monitors and a collection of floppy disks that he's too sentimental to throw away and too organized to lose.
He is also a computer geek who genuinely loves helping people. Not the "well, actually" kind of geek, but the "let me sit with you while we figure this out together" kind. He's the guy who explains what a firewall is using the analogy of a bouncer at a club, and who gets quiet and thoughtful when someone says their computer has their late grandmother's photos on it.
The website is generated by AI. The person behind it is very much real.
How It Works
$ Applying daily design rules...
$ Loading personality: shy, funny, thoughtful
$ Injecting: Street Fighter II aesthetics
$ Adding: Leslie Nielsen sysadmin humor
$ Including: NES > SNES bias (configurable, but why?)
$ Output: why.html — done.
# Tomorrow, it will all be different. Again.
Every day's version of this site is saved. You can browse the complete history of all generated pages — from chalkboards to circuit boards to whatever was generated on a Tuesday in March.
View Page History →A Closing Thought
If you've read this far, congratulations. You've made it through Mark's existential website manifesto. He appreciates it. He's shy about it, but he really does.
The point of all this isn't just to show off AI. It's to show that technology, even the most artificial of it, can still be about people. About Mark, who lives in Brantford and fixes your WiFi and remembers to tell you to save your work.
That's the real story. Everything else is just CSS.