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Geocities HTML chat was my first chatroom experience. IIRC my friend found it because they had purchased "chat.com" and had it forwarding to some chatroom? But I could be wrong about that honestly, curious if anyone else remembers.

I did pay it an homage at a couple of points, before slack completely took over, by writing a simple unsanitized HTML chatroom, hosting it on my own work computer, and telling my coworkers to all go to 192.168.x.y/chat or something -- the kind of thing you can do at small companies when you only have a couple dozen coworkers. It was incredibly entertaining to me (and some others) and I did it at two companies, but I was a little surprised that nobody ever said "hey this reminds me of geocities chat"!