IRC turns thirty

#1

Post by worez » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 12:50 AM UTC

IRC turns thirty
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Re: IRC turns thirty

#2

Post by dcow » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

Barely 30 and all the cool kids have already moved on... I think there's a metaphore in there somewhere.

Re: IRC turns thirty

#3

Post by subhro » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

I am invariably going to see in the world of Slack, "IRC, why don't you die already".

No, IRC is not going to die. FreeNode is alive and well. And while you busy slamming and wishing death of IRC, just check the memory usage of your Slack client.

Re: IRC turns thirty

#4

Post by walrus01 » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

A CLI for a workstation without irssi on it is no workstation at all.

Re: IRC turns thirty

#5

Post by sithadmin » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 1:59 AM UTC

subhro wrote: post #3

I am invariably going to see in the world of Slack, "IRC, why don't you die already". No, IRC is not going to die. FreeNode is alive and well. And while you busy slamming and wishing death of IRC, just check the memory usage of your Slack client.

How does the memory usage of my Slack clients in any way impact the utility of the tool? Private and public communities that are active, relevant, and directly impact my livelihood are on Slack, so I'm also on Slack.

I'm also on IRC, Discord, and Telegram.

This isn't a zero-sum game.

Re: IRC turns thirty

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Post by VectorLock » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:06 AM UTC

Somebody unearthed an IRC server in the hinterlands of the intranet of the huge tech company I work for. There was nobody there.

The company is big on Jabber though...

Re: IRC turns thirty

#7

Post by keithnz » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:06 AM UTC

very cool. I started with IRC circa 92, on a VAX VMS system after discovering it using Gopher :)

Was great, though very addictive. The internet wasn't very well known, and not many people were online, and it was very common to make friends all around the world. I travelled and met a lot of people all over the world through IRC. I remember quite a number of people starting relationships and having babies ( many of which would be late 20s now... crazy).

I remember in 93 when tanks were rolling into moscow getting live updates from people who were there. Was a glimpse of the future yet to come around major world events.

Slowly more and more people started turning up on IRC, new IRC networks appeared, people started to perfer networking with people in their local country or local state.... then later mostly people in their local city.

Then it started to die off with the rise of the web and alternative chat software.

Re: IRC turns thirty

#8

Post by cambalache » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:07 AM UTC

It is refreshing to still use a technology which mainly has not been tainted with current crap (share, like, subscribe). You have to deal with some mods on power-trips, but it is rare. Happy thirty!

Re: IRC turns thirty

#9

Post by protomyth » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:07 AM UTC

If someone was going to install an irc server, which one is recommended? Also, any client reconditions for Windows and Mac?

Re: IRC turns thirty

#10

Post by throwawaymath » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:09 AM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #9

If someone was going to install an irc server, which one is recommended? Also, any client reconditions for Windows and Mac?

I like Textual on macOS. It's rather nice.

EDIT: Since this seems to be unclear: I was referring to the second question regarding IRC clients.