Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/04/freenode-ftw.html
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I rarely used IRC. I did use the BITNET version of it especially on the long Friday evening monitoring the 3270 lab.
I then jumped into LambdaMOO which scratched that itch when I was in charge of the new PC labs with brand spanking new IBM PS/2 computers.
I feel really really old now.
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Ah, IRC. My misspent youth, in the mid and late aughts: online, late at night, on IRC via a homebrew DS client. Met a user going by w1nston there and introduced him to the nascent TAILS project.
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I spent a long time on EFnet IRC going back from 1995 to the early aughts. Mostly in #unix and some more artisanal channels. Made many friends and met Mrs Ficus. Good times.
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Neat… I met MrsTobinL on LambdaMOO…
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Finnish university student’s summer project.
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IRC continues to be wild. I log in every now and again just for old time’s sake.
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It’s too rare to see a chat mechanism that is actually a protocol; rather than synonymous with a specific ‘app’ and specific operator.
the long abandoned #boingboing channel on free node still exists but its been a ghost town for years
Thanks, I was thinking IRC existed over thirty years ago, but I was getting it confused with BITNET, which I had completely forgotten about.
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