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You can do something like that over IRC without much fuss! As in IRC as a backend.
by a1o 3y ago
You can do something like that over IRC without much fuss! As in IRC as a backend.
- sakjur 3y agoWhat strikes me about the system described by the article is that it predates IRC by a couple of years. I wonder if IRC could’ve been built on Habitat’s backend equally well as the other way around is easy to imagine.
- wmf 3y agoWasn't Glitch built on an IRC backend (which later became Slack)?
- DonHopkins 3y agoMicrosoft Comic Chat -- they had Jim Woodring do the comic book characters and environmental graphics! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Woodring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Woodring https://www.jimwoodring.com/ https://www.jimwoodring.com/
- gattilorenz 3y agoAnd you can still use it, although it's probably a very... lonely experience: https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/01/18/teaching-an-old-irc-dog-some-new-tricks/ https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/01/18/teaching-an-old-irc-dog-...