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by mmccaff 2540 days ago
Love it! Thanks for sharing.

I remember when split-screen chat started becoming popular in the BBS scene. Being able to type at the same time as the other person was groundbreaking! :) Prior to that, if you wanted to interrupt the other person or break in with a thought, you'd just hit enter a bunch of times or 'fjskdfklsdhfjsd' until you could take over the conversation. It was like if two people were chatting in a text editor.

I also remember versions of chat where each character would cycle through different sets of ansi colors.. harder to read and totally useless, but looked cool..

As someone else said, a blinking cursor would be nice. I got a little lost for the first few seconds without it.

Any comments on the tech that you used to build this?