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  • Dialup isn't supposed to be this smooth.
    by 1-6
  • Neat! Reminds me of circa 92-94 Prodigy/CompuServe days. By '96 I recall having moved on to local dial-up ISPs. The longer handshake was well worth it for 56k versus the 300-2400 many of us came from.
    by stldev
  • Vibe-coded garbage full of nonsense LLM text.
    by katzenq
  • Oh man, the nostalgia hit is real. Takes me straight back to my first IRC client and fumbling with Dial-up.
    by haul_up
  • The System 7 version leaves a lot to be desired.

    So many UI elements are absolutely WRONG.

    (For reference: https://infinitemac.org)

    by mproud
  • This was fun until I realized I was talking to bots :/

    If you want to talk to people I got https://superchat.win/ which has a browser version and connects to humans.

    by Aeolun
  • The first thing I did with computers that had any success was a WWIV BBS in the LA area called Altered States.

    I think I ran it on a 386 under MS‑DOS. At some point I was getting about forty calls a day and the line was busy a lot. I would drop into sysop mode and talk to people sometimes. One of those times was actually a girl in real life. She ended up being my girlfriend for a couple of years -- fun times....

    by thefourthchime
  • 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.

    by henrychannel

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