Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to type to me, old-school unix talk for the web
old-unix-style character at a time talk using websockets
Type to Me is a web-based communication tool that emulates old Unix-style character-at-a-time messaging using websockets. It allows users to engage in real-time conversations where characters appear as they are typed… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. type to me, old-school unix talk for the web launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Turn any static web page into a dynamic exchange
2018 · its alternatives →
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I've been using this for about a year now - I parsed 6 months of my messages on slack and found the most common phrases I use and generated keyboard shortcuts for them.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A point to point color terminal video chat. Contribute to mofarrell/p2pvc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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https://lisagui.com/info.html This is a web OS I wrote in vanilla JS that looks like the Apple Lisa Office System (1983-85), with other contemporaneous influences and additional improvements and features. It's currently in alpha and isn't remotely bug free. I had been holding off on posting this here until it was somewhat presentable and useful. Please note; the Lisa conforms more literally to the desktop metaphor than most modern GUIs - some of the important differences are mentioned in the readme. This is a complete recreation of the UI in JS; it all renders to a single…
2025 · alpha.lisagui.com · its alternatives →
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Underground developer meeting room.
2020 · consolechat.io · its alternatives →
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Memdex▲276Turn every AI conversation into reusable local memory
May 2026 · memdex.ai · its alternatives →
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Typeletter▲139Turn your browser into a cozy, nostalgic writing nook
Feb 2026 · typeletter.aishashok.com · its alternatives →
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RetroTerminal▲152Chat with modern LLMs through a old-school terminal
2025 · iristerminal.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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My dad just bought a new printer. I joked and asked if it also had fax and a scanner. He said yes, not realizing I was making fun of him, so I asked if it also supported Morse code. That made it clear :) Anyway, I decided to take the joke too far and build a silly Morse code chat app for fun.
2025 · noamtamir.github.io · its alternatives →
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I recently needed to make a text appear on a website and I wanted to get this real human feeling that computers don't have. I only found the TypeIt lib but it was not free and I didn't want to add a dependency for such a simple case. Human replay allows to copy paste a few lines of JS to make a text appear exactly how you typed it.
2024 · einenlum.github.io · its alternatives →
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Keep a library of saved text, paste it in a keystroke
Feb 2026 · usepastey.com · its alternatives →
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Persistent group chat in <50 lines using kdb+/k/q web sockets and JS - srpeck/kchat
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RTE: Bret Victor’s interfaces, the UNIX way. Contribute to edouardklein/realtimeedit development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic lately, so I decided to build a little web chat app inspired by Yahoo! Messenger. Right now it’s got group chat rooms. Super simple setup, no email required to register. You can create your own room or hop into one that’s already open. Room owners can customize things like backgrounds and even cursors of their room. Users can format their messages with basic markdown like bold, italics, and color texts (kind of like the old Yahoo! days). I even brought back the classic Yahoo! Messenger emoticons because… well, why not? You can try it out here:…
2025 · buzzed.chat · its alternatives →
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Keeping things simple and stupid.
2018 · vasanthv.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, TL;DR Memex is a cross-platform desktop app for vibe coding. Think ChatGPT + Claude Code rolled into one. Why we built it: We love chat tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT. We also love coding agents, like in Cursor and Windsurf. We don’t like that web-based app builders are opinionated about tech stack and we can’t run them locally. So, we built Memex to be a chat tool + coding agent that supports any tech stack. What it can do today: Claude Code-like coding. Agentic web search / research. Pre-built templates (e.g. fullstack, iOS, python + modal, etc). Inline data analysis + viz.…
2025 · memex.tech · its alternatives →
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YM.dat▲59Read old Yahoo! Messenger .dat archives locally
May 2026 · priyanksharma.com · its alternatives →
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I find myself having to convert a lot of unix timestamps to a human readable format, but most of the online calculators I found don't include the micro or nanoseconds in the human readable output. It's a small detail, but I find myself having to manually space out the timestamp frequently. I'm learning frontend development, so I made this converter to hopefully make it easier to convert timestamps. Welcome to any feedback :)
2023 · justquickmath.com · its alternatives →
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