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Re:GitHub – kkuchta/CSS-only-chat: A monstrous async web cha... by hnlmorg on Saturday July 01, 2023 @05:04AM (#36548208)
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.

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Re:GitHub – kkuchta/CSS-only-chat: A monstrous async web cha... by ykonstant on Saturday July 01, 2023 @10:19AM (#36550395)
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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