Exploring IRC (Internet Relay Chat)(blog.preahs.com)
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Exploring IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
https://blog.preahs.com/exploring-irc-internet-relay-chat/
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https://netsplit.de is a good resource for finding servers and networks as well as chat rooms across all of them, and a healthy dose of analytics data as well.
/me remembers the good old days of IRC, the netsplits and all the other good & bad things of the internet wild west…
For me just now, I had to take a bit of a breather and calm down for a second, as soon as I saw "Exploring IRC" I was taken back 30 years in time or so, when IRC was brand newish, and it paid to have a text file somewhere full of details to join the network and find out, in realtime, what was happening in the world.
Oh, how woolly things were before the web.
Oh, how woolly things were before the web.
Feels really weird seeing my post on HN lol. Glad people like it, I'm making some small edits for clarity today
These days I just use https://www.irccloud.com/ as it comes with a decent mobile app and a good web interface and everything is in sync like any modern chat app. Getting this working with znc is a lot of work.
Some communities are still heavily invested in IRC. It's good to see the same faces from 10-20 years ago still around.
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"I Repeat Classes"...
I now use Matrix and Telegram instead of IRC.