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But back before the WWW saw non-trivial deployment, IRC was the #1 use of bandwidth on the internet! Something from the 90's must still be true today!
by KirinDave 11y ago
But back before the WWW saw non-trivial deployment, IRC was the #1 use of bandwidth on the internet! Something from the 90's must still be true today!
- dfc 11y agoI was surprised when I read this comment. Do you have any evidence for this? If I had to pick some protocols off the top of my head I would have thought nntp, smtp, ftp, but certainly not irc.
- gopalv 11y agoI assume that he'd be talking about the IRC DCC sub-protocol. CTCP and then SEND bots?