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I remember doing that with modem connections in dos, you could chat with a friend while up/downloading (or with a bbs sysop). There was even a sequence that bee

by wruza 4y ago

I remember doing that with modem connections in dos, you could chat with a friend while up/downloading (or with a bbs sysop). There was even a sequence that beeped on the other side to draw peer’s attention, but I’ve never used it. With friends we had a rule to not interrupt the one who writes until a newline, because characters would mix as in “Hi, how aHrie you”.

addingnumbers 4y ago
It was fun seeing the "take turns on double newlines" rule occasionally broken for normal conversational interrupts, like their HAHAHA's interleaving with your message to let you know they're already laughing along, or OOOOOH to let you know you can stop explaining something because they just got it, or waitwaitwait to get you to go back and expound on an earlier point before you continue.