Dial into a world that never should've left.
YiffCloud is a private, members-only recreation of the mid-1990s walled-garden internet - mail, chat, messengers, and your own homepage - built for the vintage machines you already own. One account. One login. No live web, ever.
What's inside the garden
Every service answers to the same account and speaks the protocols your vintage clients already know. Point them at yiffcloud.com and sign in.
you@yiffcloud.com
A real mailbox delivered by SMTP and POP3 - 10 MB of your own. Local delivery only, mail stays in the garden.
Live channels
Classic IRC. Hang out in #lobby with any client from mIRC to ircII.
AIM · MSN · Yahoo!
Sign on with the original OSCAR, MSNP and YMSG clients. One buddy list, shared presence across all three.
yiffcloud.com/~you/
10 MB of space for your own corner of the web (stack +50 MB blocks). Upload a page, get a real internal address.
Browse, safely fenced
An intranet of curated pages, weather, and news - fetched by us, served locally, never reaching out.
Old-school utilities
Send jobs to network printers over IPP, LPD and raw 9100. Finger a member to see who's around.
Getting connected
Three steps from a cold vintage machine to a live account. No emulator, no modern browser required on the retro side.
Subscribe
Sign up and pay on this modern site. Your account works across every YiffCloud service instantly.
Authorize your line
Open the member portal from home and click Authorize this network. We add your address to the allow-list so the plaintext ports answer.
Point your machine
Set your machine's DNS to the garden and every stock client finds home on its own. Full walkthrough in the Member Handbook.
Membership
Start with a Charter Line, then bolt on exactly what you want - domains, storage, channels, a mailing list - each a simple monthly add-on. Invite-only. No refunds.
- One account (screenname) + one IP allotment
- Mail, IRC, AIM/MSN/Yahoo, FTP, printing, finger, DNS
- Your homepage at yiffcloud.com/~you/
- 10 MB website + 10 MB email per line (+50 MB blocks stack)
- No tracking, no live web - our own internet
Add-ons - stack what you need
One more IP address allowed onto your account - like adding a second line for another machine. Same screenname, more connections.
Your own name.com inside the garden, with 500 MB of site storage.
Stack onto a Line's files (cap 250 MB), or a domain's site (cap 500 MB).
Register and own an IRC #channel. Anyone can make one; owning it is yours.
Guestbook, hit counter, form-mailer, GIF pack, webrings, and your own board in the forums.
Run your own mailing list / listserv for your members and friends.
Feature your page in the banner network across the intranet portal.
Sell ad space on your own domain and cut your monthly bill - down to zero, then real payouts as the network grows.