18th April 2010, 5:37 PM
Chat city might be to old for you guys, it was before the IP protocol..
The owners had to have a virtual phone line for everyone logged into the system, so only about 10 or so people could chat at once, and you connected with your modem peer to peer, the protocol resembled telnet but not nearly as advanced.
Chat city was the shit, because it was the first chat room where you could type echo 'action' to indicate that you where performing a action in chat instead of talk.
Actions would appear in a different color, if you where lucky enough for your software to support multicolor ansi, and would appear in the format, yourusername "blanks".
I thought this might be an appropriate homage.
The owners had to have a virtual phone line for everyone logged into the system, so only about 10 or so people could chat at once, and you connected with your modem peer to peer, the protocol resembled telnet but not nearly as advanced.
Chat city was the shit, because it was the first chat room where you could type echo 'action' to indicate that you where performing a action in chat instead of talk.
Actions would appear in a different color, if you where lucky enough for your software to support multicolor ansi, and would appear in the format, yourusername "blanks".
I thought this might be an appropriate homage.