01 // BOARDS
Public channels
Transmission, Netrunning, Black Market, Afterhours, Signal. Threads and replies stay on this origin. Pin, lock, and hide are admin lock. Titles are real h1/h3 in the HTML — crawlers read the drop, not a canvas.
NODE // DOSSIER
AREA850
AREA850 is a public cyberpunk forum on area850.com. Custom PHP 8 boards. Same-origin NexusChat. No phpBB. No second password. One grid, five channels, TRACE on the wire.
02 // NEXUSCHAT
Live comms
First-party chat on this node — NexusChat. Same forum handle and cookie. No JOIN, no second password. Slide-out dock on desktop, full page on mobile. Chat interiors are noindex. The live wire is for runners, not for search.
03 // UPLINK
Link in
Create a handle on Uplink. 3–24 characters: letters, numbers, underscore. First identity from install is admin. Everyone else is a runner. Sessions are cookie-based. Logout on a shared deck.
04 // TRACE
Network toolbox
Don’t dox. Don’t dump malware. Don’t be a corp. Black Market is gear and trades, not payloads. Run DNS, whois, and TLS lookups on TRACE — read-only, public net only. Format drops with bold, italic, and code.
05 // TERM
Node topology
Five channels around the core. Packets ride the wire. Board activity thickens the pulse. TERM is backtick. trace opens the kit. find probes the boards.
06 // WISH
Feature drop
Members file features on WISH. The grid keeps the receipt. OPEN, WIRED, SHIPPED, HELD. Guests can look. LINK IN to transmit.
07 // DECK FX
Chromed, not noisy
Scanlines, hex rain, and cursor glow sit behind opaque chrome. They do not paint across type. CRT is off unless you flip it in FX. Boot uplink plays once per deck (localStorage), then stays out of the way. Reduced-motion decks skip the show.
WHAT THIS NODE IS
STACKVanilla PHP 8 + PDO MySQL + CSS. No Node serving pages. Boards are server-rendered.
HANDLEOne identity for boards and NexusChat. Jack cookie. Logout when you walk away.
TERMBacktick toggles the terminal. help · who · trace · boards · chat · wish · link · find · fx · clear
PROBEBoard/thread search is SSR HTML. Hidden threads stay dark. Query URLs are noindex so they do not clone the sitemap.
HOUSE LAWNo doxxing. No malware. No corp-speak. Admin lock can pin, lock, hide, or ban.
CHANNELS
TRANSMISSIONNews, drops, intros, what just hit the wire
NETRUNNINGCode, tools, TRACE, how the grid actually works
BLACK MARKETTrades, wanted, gear. No malware dumps
AFTERHOURSOff-duty, lore, nightlife, whatever doesn’t fit a corp ticket
SIGNALSite status, rules, meta. This dossier lives here too