🌐 VaporNet

"Best viewed on a dusty CRT at 3AM with MIDI autoplay on and your dreams slightly scrambled."

VaporNet is a surreal HTTP client proxy that generates a procedurally hallucinated internet, one request at a time. Every page is a love letter to the Weird Wide Web of the late '90s and early 2000s—reborn through the mind of an LLM and dripping with glittery GIFs, cursed fonts, and synthetic nostalgia.

Warning

VaporNet is an art project. All content is procedurally generated by an AI and intended for creative, nostalgic, and surreal exploration of internet aesthetics. Any resemblance to real websites, individuals, brands, conspiracies, media franchises, or mystical web cults is purely coincidental. VaporNet does not serve real content, and nothing it returns should be considered factual, authoritative, or real.

It’s just vibes. Weird, glittery, MIDI-playing vibes.

🧪 Usage (Coming Soon™)

Eventually you’ll be able to:

docker run -p 8080 --env OPENAI_API_KEY="<your API key>" ghrc.io/ivy/vapornet

Then browse the hallucinet by setting your browser to proxy to http://localhost:8080. Try any URL you want. Nothing is off-limits.

🌀 What Is It?

VaporNet turns any web request into a portal to an alternate timeline where:

• GeoCities never died.
• Everyone has a fan page.
• The moon landing was faked by an interdimensional record label.
• The internet is a dreaming organism held together by webrings and good intentions.

It works like this:

1. A browser makes a request to any URL (e.g. http://vampireapartment.net/blood_ring/fanfic23.html)
2. VaporNet interprets the URL, headers, and context as a prompt.
3. A large language model (LLM) hallucinates what kind of site that would be in this alternate reality.
4. VaporNet generates the HTML on the fly, complete with:
   • Imaginary assets (GIFs, MIDI, PDFs, broken webrings)
   • Nostalgic CSS and DHTML weirdness
   • Fictional webmasters and lost net lore
   • Pop-up greetings, mouse trails, <marquee> chaos, and other cursed artifacts

💾 Why?

Because the modern internet is too sterile. Because we miss the chaos. Because memory is a file format. Because you deserve to browse a fake Sailor Moon fan club hosted on a server powered by moonlight and dial-up screams.

✨ Features

• 🌈 Full HTML hallucinations for any domain or path
• 📼 Fake assets dynamically generated when requested
• 💌 Interlinked surreal websites and user personas
• 🔮 DHTML effects and cursed JS hacks from a forgotten era
• 🧠 Modular LLM prompt pipeline (concept > HTML > assets)

🚧 How It Works

VaporNet is composed of:

• An HTTP proxy server that intercepts requests and parses the URL + metadata into prompts.
• Prompt Engine:
  • First prompt: generates a high-level concept for the page.
  • Second prompt: turns the concept into fully styled HTML.
  • Additional prompts for assets (images, audio, PDFs, etc.).
• Asset Generator: returns fake media when requested via URLs like http://vapornet.net/assets/images/alien_angel_banner.gif.

No real data is served. Everything is an illusion.

🖼️ Examples

• http://vapornet.net/space_goth_forest/conspiracy_zine04.html A goth teen zine claiming glam rock is a lunar psyop. Includes howling wolf gifs and MIDI of Baba O'Riley.

• http://angelflesh.club/blackmirror_journal/fears4.htm A semi-sentient dream journal about glitchy televisions.

• http://geocities.void/sailor_moon_fan_club14013 A sparkly pink shrine to Usagi with pop-up welcome messages and a guestbook that screams when clicked.

🧰 Getting Started (Local Dev)

You'll need:

• Go 1.21+
• An OpenAI API key
• 💻 A dusty CRT (optional but encouraged)

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/your-user/vapornet.git
cd vapornet

2. Set up your .env

Create a .env file in the root of the project with your API key:

OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...

🔐 Pro tip: Don’t commit this file! Add .env to your .gitignore.

3. Install dependencies

go mod tidy

4. Run the server

go run main.go

This starts your VaporNet dream machine at http://localhost:8080.

5. Start browsing the net-unreal

Set your browser or HTTP client to use localhost:8080 as an HTTP proxy (or just curl it):

curl http://ghostforums.biz/alien_truth/files/zeta3.html

📦 Environment Variables

Variable	Description
OPENAI_API_KEY	Your OpenAI API key (required)

🔄 Updating Prompt Logic

All prompt templates live in template/prompt/*.md.

For example, concept.md is the heart of the system—it takes a request and dreams up what kind of page it should become in the world of VaporNet.

Want to make your hallucinations weirder? Start there.

📡 Philosophy

"What if we browsed the subconscious instead of the cloud?"

VaporNet isn’t just a project—it’s a vibe, a resurrection, a love letter to the internet that could’ve been. It’s emotionally intelligent, dangerously nostalgic, and slightly possessed.

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You’re not just browsing. You’re dreaming.