In the dimly lit, smoke-filled offices of a small coffee shop, a group of disaffected designers gathered to plot the downfall of the world, one pixel at a time. It was 2008, and the web was a mess of bland, soul-sucking design. They vowed to change that.
The first Neo-Brutalist website went live on a Tuesday, and it was an abomination. The founders, clad in their finest black t-shirts, proudly displayed their handiwork: a jarring, illegible mess of black and neon colors. It was a siren song to the masses, beckoning in the era of Neo-Brutalist design.
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