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Hah, had to look you up https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat Brings back memories of tcl/tk

by xref 5y ago

Hah, had to look you up https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat Brings back memories of tcl/tk eggdrop bots, buying shell accounts to keep your nick held while you were offline, and automating server jumping so you wouldn’t be banned for idling

wumpus 5y ago
Good times! I wonder how many people were launched into infosec careers or learned coding or had some other positive result in their lives because of petty fights on IRC. I learned a lot from that era, not only about social skills, but also asynchronous programming from watching msa make the irc server code much more scalable.
- 1propionyl 5y ago
  Just like Andrew Lee (rasengan)! > Today, I'm strong. Today, I'm confident. Today, I am social. Today, I am patient. Today, I am accepting. Today, I have a cause. This would not be the case, if yesterday, for me, was not IRC. Do you also agree that "IRC, is a transcended level of humanity, that values you for all the other genes and experiences that make you, you - unlike the "real" world which is utterly focused on nothing"? Source: https://www.irc.com/lets-take-irc-further https://www.irc.com/lets-take-irc-further (Yes, he bought irc.com too.)
  - wumpus 5y ago
    Well, and then there are some people that I don't exactly want to consider how IRC "improved" them.
  - wayvey 5y ago
    Ironic how the very front page of irc.com mentions "No vendor lock in".
- enriquto 5y ago
  > Good times! I wonder how many people were launched into infosec careers or learned coding or had some other positive result in their lives because of petty fights on IRC. I certainly did! After spending a couple of years (at 16-17) idling on IRC and picking stupid teenage fights, out of boredom I learned to code... in the mircScript language, to write silly bots and stuff. This is what motivated me to learn programming seriously.
  - wumpus 5y ago
    IRC bots are really a fascinating category of software, because you can inject them into situations where people didn't necessarily agree to use them :-D much easier to attract users of your code if it's not totally... voluntary.
    - enriquto 5y ago
      Have you ever seen a child using a telephone or a tablet? Its the same thing, but a thousand times over! They have software injected into them and they unwillingly suffer the effects of said software. Or any adult browsing a website with uncalled-for javascript for that matter.
      - wumpus 5y ago
        That wasn't what I was getting at, sorry to have been unclear. What I was saying is that you can write an IRC bot and then show it to your friends (on IRC) without your friends having to do anything in advance (like downloading an app.)

by xref 5y ago

wumpus 5y ago

Good times! I wonder how many people were launched into infosec careers or learned coding or had some other positive result in their lives because of petty fights on IRC. I learned a lot from that era, not only about social skills, but also asynchronous programming from watching msa make the irc server code much more scalable.

1propionyl 5y ago
Just like Andrew Lee (rasengan)! > Today, I'm strong. Today, I'm confident. Today, I am social. Today, I am patient. Today, I am accepting. Today, I have a cause. This would not be the case, if yesterday, for me, was not IRC. Do you also agree that "IRC, is a transcended level of humanity, that values you for all the other genes and experiences that make you, you - unlike the "real" world which is utterly focused on nothing"? Source: https://www.irc.com/lets-take-irc-further https://www.irc.com/lets-take-irc-further (Yes, he bought irc.com too.)
- wumpus 5y ago
  Well, and then there are some people that I don't exactly want to consider how IRC "improved" them.
- wayvey 5y ago
  Ironic how the very front page of irc.com mentions "No vendor lock in".
enriquto 5y ago
> Good times! I wonder how many people were launched into infosec careers or learned coding or had some other positive result in their lives because of petty fights on IRC. I certainly did! After spending a couple of years (at 16-17) idling on IRC and picking stupid teenage fights, out of boredom I learned to code... in the mircScript language, to write silly bots and stuff. This is what motivated me to learn programming seriously.
- wumpus 5y ago
  IRC bots are really a fascinating category of software, because you can inject them into situations where people didn't necessarily agree to use them :-D much easier to attract users of your code if it's not totally... voluntary.
  - enriquto 5y ago
    Have you ever seen a child using a telephone or a tablet? Its the same thing, but a thousand times over! They have software injected into them and they unwillingly suffer the effects of said software. Or any adult browsing a website with uncalled-for javascript for that matter.
    - wumpus 5y ago
      That wasn't what I was getting at, sorry to have been unclear. What I was saying is that you can write an IRC bot and then show it to your friends (on IRC) without your friends having to do anything in advance (like downloading an app.)