I just followed the "Great Split" link in the article and it just goes to the EFNet wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet https://en.wikipedia.or

I just followed the "Great Split" link in the article and it just goes to the EFNet wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet As a 1994-onwards IRCer, I actually had no understanding of where the term EFNet came from, and I don't really remember the US vs Europe/Japan/Australia "Great Split" of 96. I'm sure I was THERE, but I mostly frequented regional (okay #seattle and #pugetsound) channels so it wasn't particularly relevant to me. A few things hit me like a ton of bricks. At the time, IRC seemed unimaginably vast; I remember netsplits were "unavoidable" once the active user count got above 10,000, and the Wikipedia article says there are ~35,000 active users now. What didn't dawn on my until just now is that I must have known well over 100 IRCers even from just frequenting those regional forums, but because of how bad we are at conceptualizing large numbers, it never occurred to me that I must have known >1% of ALL OF THE IRC USERS ON THE PLANET at the time. Mind blowing.