3 ms·
Your site calls it "The World's First Live Messaging System" and says it "is changing the way we send messages for the first time in a staggering 21 years" - bu
by skykooler 13y ago
Your site calls it "The World's First Live Messaging System" and says it "is changing the way we send messages for the first time in a staggering 21 years" - but what about the "talk" command on Unix systems since at least 1983?
- copperx 13y agoWow. Developers today don't know their history. 21 years, haha.
- wlesieutre 13y agoLimited to local networks or VPNs, but iChat was doing this over Bonjour almost 10 years ago. I believe iChat AV 3 had it in OS 10.4. So that's a big consumer-facing one. I always disabled it because it was weird and I frequently revise messages after I typed them out and read the whole thing. Less tech-aware people might be impressed by it as a shiny novelty, but I'm not convinced that it's better.
- saurik 13y agoICQ, which was much more recent, was designed for cross-host large scale, and is one of the key brands in this market that people starting such a product should have intimate knowledge of, also had this feature (though it was removed, I believe, while merging with AOL).
- collias 13y agoYeah, this is totally BS. I worked on a BlackBerry app that did "live" texting a few years ago. This has been tried a few times before, but it turns out, no one really cares to read anything except the complete message.