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That's just IRC on a small computer though.

• noir_lord 10y ago
  Sometimes the 'just' is where the magic is, we all know that slack is just a pretty irc that end users can grok. That 'just' is worth a fee billion dollars though. Makes you wonder if there are other tools in our world that could be a 'just' away from a billion dollars.
  • wingerlang 10y ago
    Sure but I think that it is still recognisable, which was the question. 25 year ago isn't //that// long ago? People using IRC at that point (I guess techies) surely would recognise it fairly easy. Similarly you could look at a brand new Tesla and recognise it from a 1st car model or even a wagon.
    • pvg 10y ago
      People using IRC at that point (I guess techies) College students, mostly.
      • noir_lord 10y ago
        I think I first used it ~1995 so that would be 22 years. Hung around for about 5-6 years and it's been around in the background ever since, just got back into using it recently as one of the frameworks I use has a decent IRC channel and an even more decent offtopic, nice bunch of folks and with the ability to throw it in the background it gives a water cooler feeling when I'm working on my own and need to bounce an idea of people.