> Sure enough, chatters figured out a few simple protocols to pass their secret code I played this game when I was a kid, and "discovered" one of these protoco

> Sure enough, chatters figured out a few simple protocols to pass their secret code I played this game when I was a kid, and "discovered" one of these protocols myself. The only problem was maybe half of the kids wouldn't understand what you were trying to do. But there was a big joy in unlocking unrestricted chat with one of your close friends, who'd you'd previously only been able to chat with via canned messages.