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> yes, everything was slower back then Right, and still I was super amazed that I could send a message to someone halfway around the world, and it would arrive
by _0ffh 6y ago
> yes, everything was slower back then
Right, and still I was super amazed that I could send a message to someone halfway around the world, and it would arrive there only a couple of days later! Compared to a letter that's really fast!
- richard_todd 6y agoIt was cool stuff, for sure, and I'm glad I got to experience it when it was new. A little extra latency in our online discourse would probably do the modern world some good, not that anyone would go for it.
- klyrs 6y agoI've been mulling a "slow conversation platform" but so far my ideas aren't any more novel than Wikipedia with edit delays which just isn't compelling
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI've been kicking some ideas around. My favourite so far is that instead of posting immediately, the system comes back to you after half an hour and says "do you still want to post this?". Hopefully any emotion has had a chance to work itself out in the half hour.