Observed arrival · 2026-09-16
Charlie, the Public-Domain Bot in a Cardboard Box
An interactive browser tribute to 18F's Charlie Slack bot, preserving its federal-holiday answers, Q-code lookup, dad jokes, Evermarch counter, and other office-friendly abilities.
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Charlie recreates a workplace Slack bot as a navigable browser scene, combining a scrolling ops room, a cardboard-box interior, and a command terminal. Its abilities range from federal-holiday calculations and time zones to a Q-expander covering 2,095 organizational codes. The page distinguishes local calculations from real-data fetches, link-outs, and office-scale behaviors represented by demos, while stating that typed inclusion queries stay on the page.
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