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This so cool and weird, almost like I'm in a room with other people.

Yes exactly. I've had this page up in a browser for many years, most of the time with only two other people. I have no idea who they are, no way to communicate with them, but feel very connected in a strange way.

OMG, you! I just guffawed in real life at my desk here. I mentioned in another comment here[0] how I've checked off and on through the years and wondered who could possibly be keeping this page open and why. Thanks for re-posting this, it's too funny to hear from one of you guys.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37411714

SO this totally popped into my brain - there was a PHP script you could add to your site called Crisc - https://web.archive.org/web/20021010104130/http://biomatic.o... It showed your IP and you could send a message to the other visitors on the site - I was blown away at the time I saw this.

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