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> People logged in and started live-chatting all-text pictures of dragons to everyone on the computer. "wall" command? (I've never used a Unix system at the sa

• phkahler 12y ago
  At uni I used to keep a text file with huge ascii art one word messages (redundant but large) and I'd "write myfriend lunch.txt" or whatever and they'd get a huge "lunch?" on their terminal. It was even more disruptive than texting is today ;-)
• cosarara97 12y ago
  Oh, IRC https://github.com/tildeclub/tilde.club/blob/master/docs/ircserver.md https://github.com/tildeclub/tilde.club/blob/master/docs/irc...
• kjell 12y ago
  Largely `wall`. As of a few days ago there's an IRC server running on localhost.
• deleted 12y ago
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• mattdotc 12y ago
  In addition to 'wall' you can write to another user's tty if you're logged into the same machine with 'write' https://blogs.oracle.com/pranav/entry/how_to_send_message_to_users_l https://blogs.oracle.com/pranav/entry/how_to_send_message_to...
  • salgernon 12y ago
    And if their perms permissions are wrong on their tty, you can /usr/games/rain > /dev/tty24 or whatever. That was great fun back when.
  • ook 12y ago
    Try c-hey! It's skinnable write :) http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~c-hey/ http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~c-hey/
    • mattdotc 12y ago
      That's awesome! Thanks for pointing it out.