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"Slack (eight years old)"... really? I mean I could be wrong but I was under the impression Slack was just IRC with a fancy web interface. And IRC goes back to
by Over2Chars 2y ago
"Slack (eight years old)"... really?
I mean I could be wrong but I was under the impression Slack was just IRC with a fancy web interface. And IRC goes back to 1988 is wikipedia is to be believed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC
If I'm right that means Slack is much older, except for the fancy UI parts, which are no great improvement over say the nice colors of BitchX with some bots that record the channel history.
And you can't take over Slack channels by riding a server split. That would be super-cool though.