ssh-chat sort of inspired devzat. here's the story: I used to live in dubai at the time and for some odd dns reasons I could never actually join ssh-chat, but it acted as proof that ssh chats are possible, and so I decided to make my own version of it. then I moved to the us and was actually able to use both ssh-chat and devzat.
Discussion at the time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8743374
Source code in GitHub repo here:
https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat