18 points henrychannel 1 hour ago 12 comments

henrychannel 1 hour ago | parent

A zero-account browser chat room mimicking mid-90s online services.

The state runs on Upstash Redis and is shared across three different frontends (React/Vite deployed on Vercel):

* The standalone chat interface (https://lolchat.rip)

* A Windows 95 simulator (https://56k.rip)

* A Mac System 7 simulator (https://dialup.rip)

Users dialing in from the Mac desktop and users on the Win95 machine end up in the exact same rooms talking to each other.

dmd 29 minutes ago | parent

maddening that you have to manually scroll

orionblastar 1 hour ago | parent

Looks good, reminds me of the 1990s.

JojoFatsani 1 hour ago | parent

Damn I had this idea but you beat me to it

katzenq 49 minutes ago | parent

Vibe-coded garbage full of nonsense LLM text.

Feathercrown 47 minutes ago | parent

AI prose everywhere. Disappointing for something that should be a labor of love.

1-6 21 minutes ago | parent

Dialup isn't supposed to be this smooth.

owlninja 11 minutes ago | parent

And a skip button breaks the immersion!