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Are you sure that wasn't just AIM? AIM couldn't be port blocked like IRC. Most all schools had already blocked those ports.
by sneakernets 8y ago
Are you sure that wasn't just AIM? AIM couldn't be port blocked like IRC. Most all schools had already blocked those ports.
- kalleboo 8y agoIt was definitely IRC. As boys who had a prerogative to tease girls, we installed NetNanny to block launching mIRC (and then the trial period expired and the school computers got infested with registration reminders...). AIM had zero mindshare in Europe at the time, it was all ICQ and later MSN. Our school had nothing blocked, and the computers weren't locked down at all.