How old were you when you got stuck in vi (or vim) for the first time?

@algernon yup, but I think in the last couple years I saw someone (re)discover this technique and use it to append HTML...

@algernon no, I mean on a higher level.

Chunked encoding is one of the ways to drliver a response incrementally.

The browser makes several types of http requests that are not initiated by JS - requests for img src, for stylesheets, for the html document itself, etc.

Which of those accidentally support incremental responses, and who was the first to abuse it as a way to send server-initiated content changes?

I vaguely remember there was a cool hack with some part of a website being served by a server that just never signals end of file, and adds new content to it in a streaming fashion... in a way that the web browser isn't aware of but it still happens to work... doea anyone remember what that was?

@algernon IME people in my family use computers very differently than I do... I don't have an example with a PC, but I do have one with smartphones: if someone asked me how to pay for parking with an app, I'd say "Don't. Use coins." because that's what I do. I don't think they'd be happy with that answer.

@algernon ouch, that sucks.

I'm glad I can just tell my family "I don't know" and they'll try asking someone else or figuring it out themselves.

@algernon hmm but then if they don't know how to do something in the computer (eg. view an encrypted pdf from their bank) it's on you to figure it out and help them, right?