Drop: cabinet-of-computational-curiosities

A Victorian natural history museum's specimen catalog. The conceit fuses with the facts rather than painting on top of them: every one of the 63 portfolio companies is accessioned as a specimen with a Latin binomial, habitat, and field-note description; the seven team members are the museum's curators with department titles; the firm's mission, tagline, thesis, and operating economics are the Founding Charter; the open Associate role is a Vacancy in the Department; the history entrance is the Archive Wing reached through the East Door. Contact lives in the Registrar's Office as a real mailto:hello@root.vc. All 63 portfolio companies are surfaced as fully-formed specimen cards in the primary DOM (well above the 90% threshold); a view-source conservator's appendix at the end reiterates the team and collection for the curious.

Where the facts live

• Firm name: .museum-name (display title 'The Cabinet of Computational Curiosities') and .proprietor ('Proprietary museum of Root Ventures'); also the .firm-mark in the colophon and the view-source appendix.
• Mission: The Founding Charter section (#charter-heading + .charter-body) renders the firm.mission verbatim; the tagline appears as the .charter-tagline ('Seeding bold engineers'); the thesis appears as .charter-thesis.
• Portfolio: Sixty-three .specimen articles in Gallery II (#permanent-collection .specimens), each with binomial, common-name link, habitat, and field-note. View-source appendix at the bottom lists all 63 again for completeness.
• Team: Seven .curator articles in Gallery I (#curators) with name, title, department, and bio, plus a redundant view-source conservator's appendix.
• Contact: Anchor with class .mailto in #inquiries (Registrar's Office card) pointing to mailto:hello@root.vc; backed by careers and annual-meeting links in adjacent cards.

History entrance

The Archive Wing — reached 'through the East Door' — sits as a full bordered section of the catalog with a large boxed doorway button labeled 'Enter the Archive Wing' that points to /archive/. Two exhibit cards beneath it preview earlier installations (the CLI terminal and the GeoCities salon) so the entrance reads as a curated way back into the museum's program rather than a generic archive link.

Tweet draft

we have redesigned root.vc as a victorian natural history museum. 63 portfolio companies have latin binomials now. esper devicensis. seama edificium. wildtypa salmonia. visit the cabinet:

Screenshot brief

Screenshot the masthead: brass-studded nameplate showing 'The Cabinet of Computational Curiosities' with the founding charter immediately below ('From the Founding Charter… Seeding bold engineers'). A second screenshot of the specimen grid is worth taking — at least 6 specimen cards visible so the Latin binomials and accession numbers are legible. Avoid scrolling past the fold for the primary image.

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