[HN Gopher] Intel Internet Party Line (1997) ___________________________________________________________________ Intel Internet Party Line (1997) Author : omnibrain Score : 50 points Date : 2021-04-22 07:44 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (web.archive.org) (TXT) w3m dump (web.archive.org) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-24 23:00 UTC)