A chat room inside the browser console

Re:A chat room inside the browser console by phinnaeus on Saturday July 27, 2019 @07:19PM (#20544847)

I'm not really sure what's special about this. Instead of showing chat messages in an element on the page, they are emitted via console.log().

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Re:A chat room inside the browser console by Waterluvian on Saturday July 27, 2019 @07:35PM (#20544904)

I think there's a cuteness of it being hidden in the console. Who knows what site might have secret chat!

I think it's also an attempt at early web nostalgia.

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Re:A chat room inside the browser console by sergiomattei on Saturday July 27, 2019 @08:33PM (#20545172)

It's nothing fascinating engineering wise. It's just clever and interesting to see.

It's a cool toy project people can play with. I'm surprised nobody ever did it before. It's so clever.

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Re:A chat room inside the browser console by molmalo on Sunday July 28, 2019 @05:17AM (#20546579)

I wouldn't say nobody ever did it before... as it's not something incredibly novel... but it's still fun.

For example, while playing Airmash (an web game posted here around Dec 2017, now dead but another implementation still exists in starma.sh ), some of us were using a private chat (it used websocket though)... and this chat could be loaded and used via the console from any site....

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Re:A chat room inside the browser console by mhh__ on Saturday July 27, 2019 @07:50PM (#20544959)

It's not special but I did have quite a lot of fun pretending to be osama bin laden (and richard stallman)

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