No account, no app. Just rooms, a list of who's in them, and strangers mid-conversation about their tape deck.
It's the same chat that runs inside the two old desktops at https://56k.rip/ and https://dialup.rip/, so someone on the Win95 machine and someone on the Mac end up in the same room.

Is retrofuturism welcome here? I hope so

Via Hungarian Old Computers

• https://system6.app/
• https://system7.app/
• https://kanjitalk7.app/
• https://macos8.app/
• https://macos9.app/

besides the above five domains, https://infinitemac.org/ has multiple point releases of every major release of the Mac System Software from 1.0 onwards.

source code is here: https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac

@mihaip@hachyderm.io - in case you see this - thank you so much for building this!

Shared by @SinclairSpeccy@bitbang.social

I did not know this was a thing or Apricot was a computing company.

from Wikipedia

The Apricot Portable was a personal computer manufactured by ACT Ltd., and was released to the public in November 1984. It was ACT's first attempt at manufacturing a portable computer, which were gaining popularity at the time. Compared to other portable computers of its time like the Compaq Portable and the Commodore SX-64, the Apricot Portable was the first system to have an 80-column and 25-line LCD screen and the first with a speech recognition system.[3]

The future must have seemed pretty bright at that time.

As many Commodore technical staff had moved to Atari, Commodore was left with no workable path to design their own next-generation computer. The company approached Amiga offering to fund development as a home computer system. They quickly arranged to repay the Atari loan, ending that threat. The two companies were initially arranging a $4 million license agreement before Commodore offered $24 million to purchase Amiga outright.

Pic from this project page. I like the aesthetic.

I never knew such a thing existed