> if you’re having a conversation with someone in a browser, all that shit started life as a teeny demo of 2 engineers sending messages back and forth over a “hanging GET” channel back in 2005
Hmm.. pretty sure I was using online chat rooms around 1997. He's probably talking about Comet, but it was just a technical improvement, not an enabler. And realtime streams have since moved on to SSE / websockets.
Hmm.. pretty sure I was using online chat rooms around 1997. He's probably talking about Comet, but it was just a technical improvement, not an enabler. And realtime streams have since moved on to SSE / websockets.