Talk:Strange World
I don't know why people say it feels like a web chat. If you have to refresh to see new posts, it won't feel like a web chat. It doesn't feel that way any more than /b/ did that day when a bunch of Shana fans were posting at the same time. G1ade (talk) 08:03, 14 May 2022 (EDT)
There are chat programs where you need to refresh to see new posts.. Or imageboard softwares where you don't need to. If you had auto update thing enabled on /b/, you wouldn't need to refresh to see new posts for example. I personally think creation of the word "chat" was a mistake, as what we call "forum" and "chat" are fundamentally the same thing with different looks --Kaguya (talk) 08:16, 14 May 2022 (EDT)
What Kaguya said, but also: Compared with the likes of Usenet/Netnews and WWWBoard, web-based Japanese bulletin boards were extremely chat-like (especially the single-line ones like what Ayashii World started out on) - in fact, they are basically just WWWBoard with a WebChat layout at their core! And when I say WebChat, I mean like WBS (WebChat Broadcasting System) and similar, which were hugely popular in the mid-90s:
- http://www.agocg.ac.uk/reports/mmedia/handbook/fg13_5.gif
- https://www.rigacci.org/docs/biblio/online/cgi/gifs/16fig07.gif
- https://www.rigacci.org/docs/biblio/online/cgi/gifs/16fig06.gif
--Anonwaha (talk) 09:45, 14 May 2022 (EDT)
Nope, still not feeling it. G1ade (talk) 18:04, 14 May 2022 (EDT)
IRC is my reference point for chat program, maybe that's why. Even when auto-update is enabled on an imageboard it still doesn't feel properly 'chat-like'. G1ade (talk) 18:08, 14 May 2022 (EDT)
but what about this very talk page, is it technically a "chat"? a "forum"? Neither? What are we using? Are we using something to begin with O_o? Ayashii... --Kaguya (talk) 19:19, 14 May 2022 (EDT)
It's its own category of thing. It's a wiki. G1ade (talk) 20:49, 14 May 2022 (EDT)
By the way, check out Ward Cunningham's C2 wiki. It was the first wiki on the internet. It's mostly about programming languages/practices and hacker culture. The wiki's dormant now, but it makes an interesting study of how a wiki culture developed under constraints different to modern wikis. E.g. pages on that wiki are like if the main article pages and the talk pages on modern wikis were combined into one, so you are reading peoples' commentary and interjections with the articles themselves. Article names have to be at least two words long partly because of reasoning that a topic that can be summarized in one word was too general to have an article about, or something like that. Much of the time text and conversations were shuffled around and trimmed and split into new pages and people had to repair the flow of text to keep it coherent. One or two hardheaded shitters shat up a large portion of the wiki over time with argumentative verbal diarrhoea and people tried to quarantine it because few people were willing to just delete paragraphs outright. G1ade (talk) 21:08, 14 May 2022 (EDT)
