Re:Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Rea...
by noxToken on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:52PM
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The older IM clients (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, et al.) could tell you if someone was typing or entered unsent text, but it never previewed what had been typed. At least that wasn't a default option back then.
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Re:Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Rea...
by ben174 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:03PM
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ICQ had a character-by-character mode they experimented with for a while. It was kinda fun. BBSs too.
Re:Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Rea...
by copperx on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:16PM
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Character by character IS fun. I've always wondered why newer messaging platforms haven't implemented it yet.
Re:Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Rea...
by shpx on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:41PM
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The history of real-time text probably goes back to at least the 1960's on the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software) if you're on macOS, you have this command installed
http://mailman.postel.org/pipermail/internet-history/2002-De... (click on "Previous message" a few times too)
Re:Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Rea...
by sbuttgereit on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:56PM
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It wasn't the default option for sure and I remember having some extra add-on/plugin for it...
...but I recall that it was great fun (for about 5 minutes) answering questions before they had been fully typed and sent since I was the faster typist.