Lycos Chat

«Go get it!» and that black retriever bounding off to fetch. Lycos was one of the great portals and search engines of the 90s and early 2000s: as well as searching, you read the news there, opened an email account, built your first web page on Tripod or Angelfire and, of course, chatted. Chat Lycos is the meeting point for those who spent hours in that ecosystem before the internet became what it is today.

Here people remember the thrill of having your own site with its animated GIFs and visitor counter, the themed chat rooms, Lycos mail, and the era when every portal — Lycos, Terra, Ozú, Yahoo — fought to be your home page. They talk about what became of those communities, the homemade websites we all had, the MIDI music looping in the background and how vast the web felt when it was just beginning.

The room gathers nostalgics from across the Spanish-speaking world: people from Spain and Latin America who shared that early, endearing internet. It doesn't matter whether you were a loyal Lycos user or only passed through; what unites everyone is the urge to talk about it and to meet others who remember it fondly.

All you need to join is a nickname. No registration, no downloads, no email: it runs on classic IRC straight from your phone or computer browser. Type your nick, hit enter and send the dog off to fetch once more.