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It's crazy, I've been using IRC for practically 30 years. I was using IRC for months before I even checked out The Web because there was nothing on it back then
by kingcharles 5y ago
It's crazy, I've been using IRC for practically 30 years. I was using IRC for months before I even checked out The Web because there was nothing on it back then.
- spydum 5y agoliterally my first foray into the "internet", was telnetting from a dialup BBS to an IRC port, and issuing the raw IRC commands (someone had given me enough info to join a channel and basically say hi.. ).
- keyle 5y agoI met most of my friends via IRC in the 90s... I miss the excitement of reconnecting to the bouncer and reading chat log. Something you just don't get from slackbot.
- skinnymuch 5y agoHow many of those friends are still friends now? That’s cool. I began going on irc and forums in the early 00s when I was a teenager. My anxiety was too bad to connect with people directly. 15+ years later, I’ve formed a lot of friends who originated online (which coincides with the coworking community I manage, linked in my bio). I wish I would have been able to shed my issues earlier considering how much time I’ve spent on the internet since Napster was around. Edit: Regarding HN. The (vast?) majority of HNers are anonymous enough. There’s no DMing. Unlike IRC or the forums of yore like phpbb and vbulletin, it isn’t possible for me to connect with people on HN.