1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops

7 comments

• henrychannel 2 hours ago
  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.

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  • dmd 33 minutes ago
    maddening that you have to manually scroll
• 1-6 25 minutes ago
  Dialup isn't supposed to be this smooth.
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  • owlninja 14 minutes ago
    And a skip button breaks the immersion!
  • jlarocco 4 minutes ago
    I don't know... AOL chat on a 56k modem (IMO) worked better than Teams and Slack and had most of the features.
• NDlurker 4 minutes ago
  That was fun
• katzenq 53 minutes ago
  Vibe-coded garbage full of nonsense LLM text.
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  • NDlurker 4 minutes ago
    It's fun. Do you not like fun?
  • rvz 5 minutes ago
    There is no use case for any of this. Most of this vibe coded garbage will get abandoned in months and the deleted.
• JojoFatsani 1 hour ago
  Damn I had this idea but you beat me to it
• Feathercrown 51 minutes ago
  AI prose everywhere. Disappointing for something that should be a labor of love.
• orionblastar 1 hour ago
  Looks good, reminds me of the 1990s.