Interesting that `<dl>` goes back that far, I figured it'd be later.

[1] describes the initial elements of HTML. Almost all were derived from an inofficial SGML folklore tagset with the notable exception of <a> and http URIs.

[1]: https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Tags.html

I actually enabled BOSH on my Prosody setup.

For reference: https://www.someodd.zip/phlog-mirror/xmpp-server.gopher

BOSH still has some interesting trade-offs even today. It can help with some NAT headaches and rides over plain HTTPS. I like this old post:

https://metajack.im/2008/07/02/xmpp-is-better-with-bosh/

Curious who here uses BOSH in production and/or WebSocket (RFC 7395) these days.

Not for 13ish years but we built the chat feature in a social networking platform with BOSH. Looked just like FB Messenger, really. The thing never took off, so I don't remember any talks about outside federation, I think it was not on by default.

I've been homelabbing my own XMPP setup for a while. I went with Prosody and I enjoy its Lua flexibility and clean config model.

For anyone curious, I documented the full process (including IRC bridge + more!) here:

https://someodd.zip/phlog-mirror/xmpp-server.gopher

I also covered audio/video calls using a companion STUN/TURN server:

https://someodd.zip/phlog-mirror/xmpp-server-video-audio-cal...

Curious how others here are handling federation and mobile clients these days. I use Conversations (F-Droid) and Gajim.

I was expecting a modern redesign when I read the headline, but I was so delighted to be greeted by such a nostalgic style!

Cheers to decades of memories with PuTTY!