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We've created a simple two-person character-at-a-time talk utility modeled after old-school unix 'talk/ntalk/ytalk' (or, if you like, VMS PHONE). As far as we'
by dmd 15y ago
We've created a simple two-person character-at-a-time talk utility modeled after old-school unix 'talk/ntalk/ytalk' (or, if you like, VMS PHONE).
As far as we're aware, this is the ONLY existing implementation of character-at-at-time chat available anywhere on the web; we looked pretty hard and couldn't find any, so we wrote this to scratch our own itch. (The best we'd come up with prior to this was a shared etherpad doc.)
We would love help (a) making sure this scales to high loads and even more crucially (b) getting it to work under IE8.
- koopajah 15y agoThat seems fun! I remember loving this kind of chat 10 years ago when using ICQ. But on my side it seems buggy. If I connect to myself, one in Firefox and one in chrome (under linux) only the chrome one is "connected" not the firefox part. If i try with a friend under chrome and me under firefox, I see him type but he does not see anything! Possibility to erase what was typed before could be fun too. EDIT: tried again and my friend has a message asking him to give me the same URL I gave him but we are not connected together.
- dmd 15y agoI've seen this a few times, and refreshing always fixed it... unless your friend is on Firefox 3, which we don't support.
- a3_nm 15y ago> As far as we're aware, this is the ONLY existing implementation of character-at-at-time chat available anywhere on the web You can do it with Google Wave. It's not the intended use, but it's less awkward than a shared Etherpad.
- osswid 15y agohttp://telehack.com/ http://telehack.com/ has a 'talk' command and a web interface, although you'll have to make an account to use it and CLI your way to the command. The simple web interface at typeto.me is pretty slick.