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Since IRC was available for the last 15 years and only a handful of people used it like you, we should conclude that about the same number would do the same wit
by fiatjaf 10y ago
Since IRC was available for the last 15 years and only a handful of people used it like you, we should conclude that about the same number would do the same with Slack, all the others are just people who shouldn't be using Slack at all.
- kazinator 10y agoIRC dates back to 1989. I myself first compiled a client on a HP-UX 9 system and connected in 1993. IRC was relatively big because it preceded the web; it was one of the few cool, interactive things you could do over the network. That and some early networked games. MUDs, shooters like Hunt (1986), XPilots (1992?)
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- ams6110 10y agoEven before IRC there was "talk" which let you chat with anyone logged in to the same host (don't recall if it supported network chat). Remember in those days few people had a computer on their desk, instead they had a terminal that connected to a central host.
- kazinator 10y agoYes talk did work over the network. The programmers that wrote it, though, made fundamental mistakes in it. They sent raw C structures over the network without marshaling, oops! So talk didn't work very well. The issues were addresses in "ntalk".
- alblue 10y agoAnd while talk only allowed for 2 people to communicate, ytalk allowed multiple people to talk at the same time.
- blister 10y agoHey, glad you remember ytalk. I was one of the maintainers for a short period of time (I owned metawire.org and worked with Jessica Peterson on it). We depended on ytalk for collaboration to chat and share shells. Those were happier times when the internet was populated by geeks. :)