I wish my web server were in the corner of my room

Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by lucb1e on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:40PM (#33168957)

I wasn't an AOL user so it took me a few reads. What this must mean is something like:

    [Joe]  what's up <a href="//example.net/?username=
    [Jane] nm, wbu
    [Joe]  ">join my chess game?</a>

Which could show on Jane's screen as

    [Joe] what's up
    [Joe] join my chess game? (<-link)

The message of Jane would have looked like it got swallowed because it was inside the HTML tag, but so long as they don't know what's up and ignore it, the link would go to something like https://example.net/?username=%0A%5BJane%5D%20nm%2C%20wbu%0A...

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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by jrootabega on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:08PM (#33169283)

Less clever than that. jaywalk's comment got it. You could put a link in your away message/status/profile and see which people clicked it and/or were "stalking" you.

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