[HN Gopher] Intel Internet Party Line (1997)
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Intel Internet Party Line (1997)
Author : omnibrain
Score : 50 points
Date : 2021-04-22 07:44 UTC (2 days ago)
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| tyingq wrote:
| One of the third party clients:
| http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FJ8GxFz...
|
| I wonder if it had similar trajectory/problems as chatroulette.
| ArtWomb wrote:
| Getting IDMOO running live again would make an interesting
| browser experiment. Hardest part may just be finding a
| downloadable archive. This is why software preservation is so
| hard ;)
| silasdavis wrote:
| This is rather like the utterly-irritating-until-you-start-using-
| it-yourself voice note feature of many popular messaging clients.
| moftz wrote:
| Depending on the number of people in the room, this could easily
| turn into insane waits between when you sent your message and
| when everyone hears it. This would probably work best in a
| conference call sort of situation where you have people mostly
| speaking one at a time rather than just a normal IRC room where
| there's a dozen conversations going on simultaneously.
| jetrink wrote:
| It would be fun to design ways to manage the latency. I could
| imagine a modified push-to-talk where you hold down a key and
| the system gives you an audio cue to start speaking when the
| backlog of audio has dropped to an acceptable length. The
| system could also load balance speakers that way, giving people
| who make shorter or less frequent statements priority in the
| meeting.
| rconti wrote:
| My very first thought. It would become almost immediately
| unusable, haha.
| tpmx wrote:
| It uses the same open GSM audio codec implementation as John
| Walker's Speak Freely (http://www.speakfreely.org/history.html,
| https://web.archive.org/web/19970511165210/http://www.fourmi...)
| from around the same time.
|
| https://imgur.com/a/y4De3Wc
| marcodiego wrote:
| I used it back in the day. Also relevant at the time were VDOLive
| and VDOPhone:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20000520100808/http://www.vdo.ne...
| neom wrote:
| Any ZNC admins from the 90s also half expect this to be about the
| bouncer?
| userbinator wrote:
| System Recommendations Intel Pentium(r)
| processor-based system, 60 MHz or higher Windows* 95
| or Windows NT* operating system Half-duplex sound
| card with speakers or headset Microphone for voice
| input Client: Modem, 28.8 Kbps or faster
| Server: ISDN or higher connection to the Internet An
| Internet service provider that supports TCP/IP*
|
| "real-time, multi-party audio chat over the Internet" was
| possible 24 years ago. Meanwhile, on a two-year-old computer, I
| still have frequent trouble getting Teams audio chats to work
| without stuttering and breaking up on a 50Mbps connection...
| ok123456 wrote:
| Switch to iparty?
| bayindirh wrote:
| A lot of things are possible for very long times, but for some
| reasons that I cannot fathom, we decide to abandon nicely
| working things for flashy, less capable and closed systems.
| askvictor wrote:
| This isn't real-time multi-party audio, but delayed/queue one-
| at-a-time audio (description describes it as like a text chat
| room with audio instead of text). Real-time multi-party is much
| harder.
| pjc50 wrote:
| > Internet Party Line queues each person's statements and plays
| them serially, which allows each person to talk without
| interrupting the others
|
| This would be a game changer, for those of us who are a bit deaf
| / have trouble picking out multiple voices. This is harder on
| normal voice conferences because they're not spatial; everyone's
| speaking to you from the center of the stereo pan.
| WalterGR wrote:
| Omnibrain - I'm curious: you submitted this 2 - 3 days ago, yet
| this is a fresh submission showing "3 hours ago". Only this post
| is in your submission history.
|
| How are you able to 'bump' or 'refresh' a submission in this way?
| silasdavis wrote:
| This may be the unseen hand of the moderator. See the 'second
| chance pool': https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-
| undocumented/blob/m...
| cehrlich wrote:
| I could see that being the case - the Intel Internet Party
| Line was recently mentioned in the top comment of a different
| front page thread.
| WalterGR wrote:
| That must be it. Thanks.
| omnibrain wrote:
| I had no hand in this. It's either what silasdavis said
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26927915 or someone else
| submitted the same ink what lead to a bumb or something else
| entirely.
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