This is wild, never even heard of it but kind of tracks

It seems like it is fiction, from what I could find. I was doubting it at times but it feels like for how old it was some of the tech wasn’t quite there then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37723862

It's fiction, there's breadcrumbs at the top that list it as in the "Fiction" category. qntm is good at plausible sci-fi, e.g. https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

It reads like a creepypasta, which is cool, but definitely not convincing.