@allison Never heard of this before, reminds me a lot of how slsk and limewire were talked about. One could possibly chart a line from this to synchtube and syncplay with how those two (especially the former) basically made online watch parties a thing.

This time of the internet was a little before me going online, so the non-browser freewares and IRC-adjacent tech was mostly inscrutable with the exception of like VisualBoyAdvance.