“Interactive” is overly broad and doesn’t imply multi-user sync. “Duplex” tells me about the transport layer, not the desired functionality — some of the patter

“Interactive” is overly broad and doesn’t imply multi-user sync. “Duplex” tells me about the transport layer, not the desired functionality — some of the patterns in the article are achieved with half-duplex transports. “Realtime” in this sense is akin to real-time strategy games which has been a named genre since at least 1992 (and is also not real-time in the classical computing sense).