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Re:Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Rea... by anthk on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:40PM (#18983337)
You meant Pidgin's modes? It has methods to guess when a user was typing, but not the content.
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Re:Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Rea... by sbuttgereit on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:44PM (#18983376)
Thought it was Pidgin, but might have been ICQ... it was a long, long time ago that I used any of these... can't remember specifically; maybe even MSN via Pidgin. Seems like it would have been more a function of the protocol that you were using than the client/plugin specifically (naturally that had to support it, too, but the more fundamental would have been the protocol.)
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Re:Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Rea... by slobotron on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:53PM (#18983469)
Definitely at the very least ICQ had it - remember freaking out friends by replying to their questions before they even clicked send. This was late 90s...
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Re:Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Rea... by j79 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:54PM (#18983488)
I'm a bit older and also remember this as well. I would watch in real time when my friends would type something out, or call out their mistakes in typing. I believe you're right about it being ICQ.
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Re:Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Rea... by coupdejarnac on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:56PM (#18983504)
I remember this being a feature of ICQ in 1998.
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