1810: Chat Systems - Revision history

FaviFake: Per the discussion at the community portal, Blondie and Miss Lenhart are being merged, just like Cutie and Megan

2026-05-09T15:17:46Z

Per the discussion at the community portal, Blondie and Miss Lenhart are being merged, just like Cutie and Megan

42.book.addict at 09:37, 3 December 2025

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FaviFake at 17:19, 9 May 2025

2025-05-09T17:19:14Z

Kwonunn: /* Chat systems */ Replace him/her with them

2024-12-31T13:25:37Z

‎Chat systems: Replace him/her with them

172.68.110.160 at 17:13, 17 September 2023

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Ex Kay Cee Dee at 23:47, 4 May 2022

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 ==Trivia==
-*There are [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ef/1810_Chat_System_numbered.PNG 57 characters] in the comic.
+*There are [[:File:1810_Chat_System_numbered.PNG|57 characters]] in the comic.
 *The ubiquity of standards - here, of messaging systems - was already covered in [[927: Standards]] and people's hesitation to switch off IRC was mentioned in [[1782: Team Chat]]. The same point about people using various chat systems was used in [[1254: Preferred Chat System]]. And famously the hidden chat room mentioned in [[1305: Undocumented Feature]], was later created by Randall through the [[April Fools' Day comics|April Fools' Day comic]] [[1506: xkcloud]] - see the [[1506:_xkcloud#Don.27t_contact_us|Don't contact us]] section.

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 ==Trivia==
-*There are [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ef/1810_Chat_System_numbered.PNG 57 characters] in the comic.
+*There are [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ef/1810_Chat_System_numbered.PNG 57 characters] in the comic.
-*The ubiquity of standards - here, of messaging systems - was already covered in [[927: Standards]] and people's hesitation to switch off IRC was mentioned in [[1782: Team Chat]]. The same point about people using various chat systems was used in [[1254: Preferred Chat System]]. And famously the hidden chat room mentioned in [[1305: Undocumented Feature]], was later created by Randall through the [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] [[1506: xkcloud]] - see the [[1506:_xkcloud#Don.27t_contact_us|Don't contact us]] section.
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 |{{w|Apache_HTTP_Server|Apache}} Request {{w|Server_log|Log}}
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-|Like many {{w|Web server|web servers}}, Apache keeps a record of incoming requests -- both successful and unsuccessful -- in various log files. A conscientious webmaster will often review those logs, either to gauge interest in visited pages, or more importantly to detect failed requests that should not have failed, perhaps due to errors in the site's hotlinks which are therefore in need of cleanup.  If you know a particular webmaster who does this regularly, you can therefore send him/her a personal message by attempting to fetch a deliberately-nonexistent URL like <tt>http://example.com/Hey_Sandra_its_Pierce_wanna_have_a_drink_tonight.html</tt>, knowing that the "message" will show up as a failed request in the logs.  This is a form of "back channel" communication, hardly practical as a true "chat system"{{Citation needed}}, although an excellent in-joke among like-minded hackers.  Nevertheless, shortly after this comic appeared, a more "practical" implementation was [https://github.com/mdom/smokesignal published on github].
+|Like many {{w|Web server|web servers}}, Apache keeps a record of incoming requests -- both successful and unsuccessful -- in various log files. A conscientious webmaster will often review those logs, either to gauge interest in visited pages, or more importantly to detect failed requests that should not have failed, perhaps due to errors in the site's hotlinks which are therefore in need of cleanup.  If you know a particular webmaster who does this regularly, you can therefore send them a personal message by attempting to fetch a deliberately-nonexistent URL like <tt>http://example.com/Hey_Sandra_its_Pierce_wanna_have_a_drink_tonight.html</tt>, knowing that the "message" will show up as a failed request in the logs.  This is a form of "back channel" communication, hardly practical as a true "chat system"{{Citation needed}}, although an excellent in-joke among like-minded hackers.  Nevertheless, shortly after this comic appeared, a more "practical" implementation was [https://github.com/mdom/smokesignal published on github].
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-|An older open-source instant messaging application.
+|An older proprietary instant messaging application.
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