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

  today at 1:36 AM

  maddening that you have to manually scroll

Dialup isn't supposed to be this smooth.

• jlarocco

  today at 2:04 AM

  I don't know... AOL chat on a 56k modem (IMO) worked better than Teams and Slack and had most of the features.

• owlninja

  today at 1:54 AM

  And a skip button breaks the immersion!

Vibe-coded garbage full of nonsense LLM text.

• NDlurker

  today at 2:05 AM

  It's fun. Do you not like fun?

• rvz

  today at 2:04 AM

  There is no use case for any of this. Most of this vibe coded garbage will get abandoned in months and the deleted.

Damn I had this idea but you beat me to it

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

Looks good, reminds me of the 1990s.