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Welcome to 1997.... Literally

by sn0n 2y ago

netsharc 2y ago
The program to do this back then was called uTOK. I think it acted as a local HTTP (who needs the S ;-) ) proxy and would intercept requests and inject its HTML so you have a hovering DIV on the page with people's comments. I remember seeing people comment on CNN news articles. Ah, imagine the toxicity if that's around nowadays. Edit: ah it had its own window: https://web.archive.org/web/20160801064255/https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160801064255/https://alumni.me...