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> when the other person typed you didn't need to wait for them to hit "send", rather you would see their typing immediately. When they pressed a key, I could se
by lxe 7y ago
> when the other person typed you didn't need to wait for them to hit "send", rather you would see their typing immediately. When they pressed a key, I could see that key press happen right away.
Google Wave anyone?
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoTeens are now using Google Docs as a chat app: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hottest-chat-app-teens-google-docs/584857/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hotte...
- AceJohnny2 7y agoI hear that, kind of in protest when Google announced Yet Another Chat Service (Allo? Duo?), Googlers created a list of all the "chat" systems supported across Google's ecosystem. It was in the high teens? More? Stuff like Sheets chat, Youtube chat...
- vageli 7y agoThe students are probably motivated by network-level blocking of common chat apps but not schoolwork necessities like Google docs.
- AceJohnny2 7y agoDon't add salt to the wound. Every time I get frustrated with my company's email system, I dream of what could've been.
- V-eHGsd_ 7y agoyou dream of google wave? I was at google when wave was released, I tried to use it for a number of collaborative projects (what would otherwise have been large email threads). it just didn't work.
- AceJohnny2 7y agoCall it rose-colored glasses, maybe. In retrospect, it was a javascript monster before its time, and why those scrollbars!? But I'm curious if you can recall specific reasons why it didn't work. As I recall, for me it was just a lack of network effect.
- Angostura 7y agoFWIW, I used with a team of about 10 people geographicaly dispersed for a project, and it worked a treat. It started off a real time chat and ended up being the documentation - seamlesslessly as people edited the earlier chat. It was a horrible resource hog on the browser, but I thinkn that could have been solved.
- gerikson 7y agoI liked Google Wave. It was helpful in planning a trip with multiple participants.
- microcolonel 7y agoI personally did productive work with Wave, it was great.
- thanatropism 7y agoICQ had that feature.
- lvturner 7y agoI really miss ICQ and periodically dream of rebuilding it, particularly it's feature set (I think) around the 98a and 98b clients
- kazinator 7y agoBSD talk/ntalk is like that. Years before ICQ, and whatever not. The screen is split into two (separated by dashes). You type in your area, which is shown in quasi-real-time to the other party, while you see their keystrokes in the opposite partition.
- Jaruzel 7y agoWindows had something similar: WinChat. I believe it debuted in Windows 98 / Windows NT.
- dragonwriter 7y agoIt debuted in Windows for Workgroups, actually.
- Jaruzel 7y agoAha. Which means Windows NT 3.51 as well. So I was half-right ;)
- minikomi 7y agoICQ anyone?
- tempestn 7y agoI still miss the ICQ random stranger chat feature. Had a number of great conversations on there. Briefly tried chatroulette/omegle, but the flavour of the experience was very different.