are there and discords/IRC channels/whatever where people talk about retro tech? i want to find people who are likely to, for example, do stuff online with Windows 98 computers together. maybe virtual LAN stuff, just playing around with old computers together
i have an idea for a virtual serial connection over the internet for playing DOS modem games on real hardware but i don't have anyone else with a similar setup on the other end to try it out with, that's the kind of community i'm looking for
also thinking about some sort of web community in which all pages are HTML4/CSS2 compliant in order to render properly in early 2000s web browsers. i can make such a page on my own but would have more fun if more people were participating in it & i don't know how to achieve that
maybe i could host some sort of hosting service a la neocities but if i manually manage it all and manually veto users for abuse nobody will want to join, and if i leave it open it's going to get vandalized and nobody will want to join. also i have no idea how to set that up
i feel like i fucked up one too many interpersonal relationships with way too influential internet characters to ever have any friends with similar interests anymore because half the subset of the internet who participates in it hates me based on false narratives or something
i once joined a random furry discord with 200 people in it in which i had never been before and i immediately got banned from it and i had to press the staff to find out it was because "someone in the server recognized me and was uncomfortable with me"
i'm sorry i'm trash. please let me have friends
i just want to be a part of a retro web movement along with other people but i don't know where to find the people or when i do they're not interested in joining my efforts