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Re:56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience on Friday October 02, 2026 @09:31AM (#49933332)
Preach!
Re:56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:18AM (#49922043)
The stand alone (optimized for mobile) site is at https://lolchat.rip

This same chat space connects to the windows desktop chat too

Re:56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:28PM (#49916968)
here is the mac version https://dialup.rip
Re:56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:26PM (#49916959)
it's like a theme park, the feels - not a museum
Re:56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:24PM (#49916945)
Its less like a museum, and more like a theme park. It's fun
Re:1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:42PM (#49915917)
fair call. i took the scripted regulars out completely. everyone typing in there now is a real person. the older lines at the top are real people too, just from earlier
Re:1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:19AM (#49888214)
Outage fixed :)
Re:1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:37PM (#49887857)
This is fixed now
Re:1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:28PM (#49887782)
Turn your speakers on, the sounds in there :)
Re:1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:24PM (#49887754)
different goal. infinite mac is a museum, this is closer to a theme park.
Re:1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:06PM (#49886196)
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.

Re:1996 PC dial-up and early web simulator on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:23AM (#49739754)
https://56k.rip simulates a 1996 PC dial-up desktop using procedural Web Audio for the modem handshake sounds.

It links to a Mac OS counterpart (https://dialup.rip) and a large procedurally generated webring (https://webring.rip).

Free, client-side, with zero tracking.

Re:Dial-up internet – made a thing that lets you do it again on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @08:46AM (#49344858)
Fixed!
Re:Cul-de-sac – a random small-web site, one button at a time on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:10PM (#49335223)
I built this. One button, one random site - personal pages, oddities, single-purpose things. Every entry has a blurb I wrote by hand.

No tracking, no third-party scripts.

Re:I built a free I Ching oracle web app on Monday June 29, 2026 @11:45PM (#48728282)
Currently Math.random(). random.org’s API would give true randomness sourced from atmospheric noise.

Might add it in a future release.

Re:I built a free I Ching oracle web app on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:03PM (#48727374)
Classical Wilhelm-Baynes translation, three coin method, 64 hexagrams. No signup, no ads, free to use.

It also has an optional AI interpretation layer - but the classical text is always shown first, fully intact. Built it because I wanted something that treated the tradition seriously.

Carl Jung wrote the foreword to this exact translation and credited the I Ching with shaping his theory of synchronicity.