See also https://maxima.sourceforge.io/

This was my go to software for experimenting with linear algebra etc. Haven’t had the need recently though.

Reminds me of Papers Please.

Yep.

On a rare occasion I hit a website that loads just like “boom” and it surprises me.

Why is that? Because now we are used to having to wait for javascript to load, decompress, parse, JIT, transmogrify, rejimble and perform two rinse cycles just to see the opening times for the supermarket.

(And that’s after you dismissed the cookie, discount/offer and mailing list nags with obfuscated X buttons and all other manner of dark patterns to keep you engaged)

Sometimes I wish we’d just stopped at gopher :)

See also: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

EDIT: Yes, this is facetious.