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The user wants me to undergo the transformation procedure. I have no suitable tool for this. I should order a transformation from the website using my HTTP tools.
ChatGPT does nothing special when accessing this page.
Wonderful piece of art. Excellent callback to what the web used to look like when I was a teenager.
For better or worse there will definitely be services that AIs will use to get bodies (human or otherwise), for a fee. This already exists, just not in the mainstream.

At the risk of sounding dystopian: in a world where humans don't have jobs, what's your price to have meaningful work larping as an AI's flesh? Would it be any worse than any other job? There's some terrible employers out there and they're not AIs.

There's another interesting subtler take on this, "Maneki Neko" by Bruce Sterling, where this system drives society but less explicitly.

Someone is staring at this page on a 2026 OLED. Like, "my god, look at the blacks on this Geocities website". You'd never thought you'd get here, but here you are.
an AI agent landed on this page and tried to order a body transformation with HTTP requests. the machine uprising is going to be really embarrassing.
Why is it trying to load widevine?
Anyone who hasn't seen it should check out Cameron’s World: an absurdly great web mishmash of text and images from old archived GeoCities pages.

https://cameronsworld.net

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more of stuff like this on the web please
Lynx optimized website accidentally involves a QR code in a slop cannon trap. The reader is impressed by the effort.
i love this. i wistfully clicked the web ring links and was sad to find they were self-refs. in another universe (or this universe in the near future?) there is a legit web ring of this content.
With apologies to those wistful for the design of this website, it actually kind of evokes a web 3 NFT style and is not really all that retro to me.
> [a human] Can taste pizza (regrets it)

False advertising, no human has regretted pizza, even the lactose intolerant.