[irrational]

> what, you have to press enter to send? primitive!

Is that really good UX? I want to have a chance to fix my typos and other errors before sending.

[orbital-decay]

I find it awkward as well, but Google Wave worked exactly like this, and people praised it for this feature.

[cjauvin]

I think ICQ used to work like this too, and I remember how impressed by it I was.

[kingkawn]

Ahh the mountains of praise for Google Wave, I remember it well

[JeremyBanks]

It was ahead of its time.

[Someone]

Back in the day, most hardware couldn’t send data without having the user press ‘send’.

A shared system that could survive being interrupted whenever any of its users pressed a key still was relatively rare.

So I guess this might ¿partly? Have been to show of the capabilities of the system. At 1200 or maybe even 300 baud, it may also be the better UX, but I wouldn’t know.