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IRC necromancy
- teddyh 9y agoMore like “IRC bot archeology”.
- irq 9y agoPerhaps, but it’s a network services bot, which is very much a part of most IRC networks. Did you know they connect to the network as a server, not as a regular client like most irc bots?
- lowglow 9y agoI think the author, Neozeed, is the person back in the day when I asked them to teach me how to "hack", they instead taught me what telnet was and that there was a larger network beyond AOL. It lead me to what I am today. Thanks.
- beefhash 9y agoIf I may, I should point out that it says "I’m a guest poster" at the top pof the post. The author is not actually neozeed, but rather me. I'm very grateful for the opportunity I was given. Maybe I should've made the authorship clearer in my submission, though.
- scruffyherder 9y agoUnixgod? Lol long long time ago. ... But I'm just hosting this post, it's not mine. The rest of the blog ramblings are.
- lowglow 9y agoIt was SOOOO Long ago I don't even remember my handle back then. That was a long time ago. What are you up to now?
- scruffyherder 9y agoChanged jobs a few times, changed cities, then continents and then finally settled down. But I'm much older than you! Started a blog over 10 years ago as a place to record my crazy experiments and to remember obsolete stuff. Not that I think many people care about ancient Unix, Novell or OS/2... I never really have much time to go back to the old chat.taucher.net thing... With the wife / kids / work it's hard to find the time.
- lowglow 9y agoCan I just email you through your site? Is there contact info there?
- scruffyherder 9y agoI have a really unique email.. Neozeed .AT. gmail.com When Gmail went public I thought we were all doing aliases, meanwhile everyone went with real names for some reason. And some Australian football player with the same name and his rabid fans grabbed all the variations of mine... Oh well.
- xabi 9y agoXDCC original author here. Nice to read this kind of stuff!
- Asooka 9y agoThank you! I've downloaded so much stuff via XDCC that wasn't available in torrent form, or even sold anywhere.
- mickeyp 9y agoAhh, memories -- memories of waiting in a queue to download something only to forget to enable "auto-accept DCC send" and have it time out some time around 2 AM! Thanks for inventing XDCC :) IRC and online chat was a lot more fun 15-20 years ago.
- jaequery 9y agoirc is so useful that i cant believe it is dying, and aside from freenode perhaps even dead. so what killed the IRC? its not like theres any other alternative out there. slack seems to come close but its still very different and for a different purpose.
- kuschku 9y agoGamers moved from Quakenet to Discord, open source projects moved from Freenode to Slack, and that’s it. Luckily, most projects are left on Freenode, as an open source project relying on a proprietary service is something few people can stomach (outside of some people that already accepted the commercialization of the net)
- loeg 9y agoWe use IRC sort of interchangeably with Slack at my work. The nice thing about IRC is you can host it on-premise and Slack doesn't have all of your company's confidential information. The downside is that it doesn't come bundled with a pretty webapp with GIFs and emojis.
- awirth 9y agoAt work we have an onsite Zulip instance which meets both those requirements for us (including SSO integration). It's surprising to me that there aren't more places using it.
- jancborchardt 9y agoThere’s always Riot https://about.riot.im/ https://about.riot.im/ which is a nice and fully open source app so you could set that up on-premise too. :)
- app4soft 9y agoXKCD has cool comic[1] about IRC. [1] https://xkcd.com/1782/ https://xkcd.com/1782/
- rhave 9y agoOh, memories. We also made a lightweight channel service to take the load off of Q. I think it was a little before newserv came into production. We designed it over generous amounts of whisky in a suburb to Stockholm. It's on github (https://github.com/quakenet/lightweight https://github.com/quakenet/lightweight).
- opless 9y agoQ has been around for ~20 years, is quakenet still growing?
- rhave 9y agoAs most irc networks we've been in decline for quite some time: http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=QuakeNet http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=QuakeNet
- fapjacks 9y agoFor trivia, which suburb?
- rhave 9y agoSorry, I honestly can't remember. I'm pretty sure I was drinking Chivas Regal though.
- jlgaddis 9y ago# Appears as ANNA
- vldr 9y agoI love trips down the memory lane to, what I call "the old internet" (before facebook etc), like this. I also had to check if "my" bot was involved somehow. I wrote a C-bot called VladBot in the early 90's, stopped working on it somewhere in '97 but it's seen all kinds of reincarnations (good and bad) since then.
- james_a_craig 9y agoI'm also known as MadHacker, and I'm the original author of one of the other Q variants on the list (Q3). It's good to see people still interested in the history of IRC, especially as it seems to be slowly dying, sadly. I've spoken to the author about the various sets of source code for QuakeNet's services, but the versions linked are the best we can find just now. If there's anyone out there with old copies of any of the Q variants, it'd be good to hear from you. -- MadHacker@quakenet