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hnlmorg on July 1, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: CSS-Only Chat

In the 90s we used to just call them “chat rooms” (or “HTML chat” if we wanted to differentiate for stand alone clients like IRC).

I even wrote one myself.

ykonstant on July 1, 2023 [–]

I loved them; probably nostalgia, but I was having much more fun with those than today's chatrooms. I also preferred them to IRC for some reason.

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