I could have sworn that this was posted on Tildes already, but apparently not. It is a pretty extensive history about IRC ranging from its origins (going back further than I thought) as well as...
I could have sworn that this was posted on Tildes already, but apparently not. It is a pretty extensive history about IRC ranging from its origins (going back further than I thought) as well as the various technical and human challenges it faced over its history.
Having spend a fair amount of time in various IRC channels over the years it also was a nostalgia trip.
Sort of off-topic but also on-topic. Very recently I did boot up my BNC again and have been sitting on IRC (Which is very quiet these days). Today I discovered that libera.chat has a #tildes channel someone created at some point. It was empty, but now it has two of us for anyone who wants to hang out and feel nostalgic. ;)
Today I discovered that libera.chat has a #tildes channel someone created at some point. It was empty, but now it has two of us for anyone who wants to hang out and feel nostalgic. ;)
Had to join up just for nostalgia's sake - I miss the #bookz crowd on Undernet, but it's been a couple of decades. Nobody hanging on #Tildes - that's normal.
Had to join up just for nostalgia's sake - I miss the #bookz crowd on Undernet, but it's been a couple of decades. Nobody hanging on #Tildes - that's normal.
I could have sworn that this was posted on Tildes already, but apparently not. It is a pretty extensive history about IRC ranging from its origins (going back further than I thought) as well as the various technical and human challenges it faced over its history.
Having spend a fair amount of time in various IRC channels over the years it also was a nostalgia trip.
Sort of off-topic but also on-topic. Very recently I did boot up my BNC again and have been sitting on IRC (Which is very quiet these days). Today I discovered that libera.chat has a
#tildeschannel someone created at some point. It was empty, but now it has two of us for anyone who wants to hang out and feel nostalgic. ;)For anyone curious to join but not familiar with IRC yet, you can use this link to use a web client: https://web.libera.chat/#tildes
Nine of us, now! Well, eight, excluding ChanServ.
Yeah, it was cool seeing so many people from tildes chatting in irc.
Fond memories of IRC back when I was a youngin', both HS and in college (in the 90's).
My first access to the Internet was with a unix shell account in the mid-late 90s. I spent a lot of time on IRC along with gopher, ftp, and Usenet.
Had to join up just for nostalgia's sake - I miss the #bookz crowd on Undernet, but it's been a couple of decades. Nobody hanging on #Tildes - that's normal.