I guess it could be treated that way, but it is just a chat network to me and many. I don't expect to scroll back to infinity and find old messages. On IRC of

I guess it could be treated that way, but it is just a chat network to me and many. I don't expect to scroll back to infinity and find old messages. On IRC of course, you got X amount of history when you logged on, and that was what you worked with. It does feel a lot more ephemeral, more like a real conversation.