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IRC was such an interesting place - vast with a ton of different niches. I spent a whole summer downloading and burning dreamcast games - to a 14 year old it f
by gxs 9y ago
IRC was such an interesting place - vast with a ton of different niches.
I spent a whole summer downloading and burning dreamcast games - to a 14 year old it felt like I'd won the lottery.
All of my gaming friends hung out on IRC as well, on top of stuff like cracked passwords for pay sites , software, and just all the weird niche hangouts like the phreaking channels.
It was a great part of growing up, sometimes I'm tempted to check in and see what's still around but somehow I never get around to it.
- evincarofautumn 9y agoIRC is still an interesting place! Even just on Freenode there are a bunch of good channels. It’s not the same as the 90s (before my time online) and 2000s, but I’ve made a few friends & good acquaintances on technical channels, many of whom I’ve even had the pleasure of meeting in person, since many of us live in the SF bay area.
- mpg515 9y agofreenode is definitely the useful network these days
- erikbye 9y agoAgreed. Freenode is the network I frequent the most. Some of the programming language and framework specific channels are good. As it has always been, IRC can seem like a pretty hostile place to "noobs"; just don't ask to ask and RTFM before you do. #emacs is usually very helpful and friendly.
- digi_owl 9y agoI'm still sore about losing the local channel to IM (particularly MSN Messenger, thanks to MS' aggressive bundling) and early gen social networking sites.