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Brings back memories of visiting northern Virginia as a teenager and recognizing all the town names from IRC servers, like Ashburn, McClean, Vienna, and several
by patwolf 2y ago
Brings back memories of visiting northern Virginia as a teenager and recognizing all the town names from IRC servers, like Ashburn, McClean, Vienna, and several others.
I saw the VA governor speak at some point in the late '90s, and he touted Virginia "internet capital of the world". I naively thought it was because of all the IRC servers.
- linsomniac 2y agoSame, but for me it was names in bang paths, the only one I seem to still be able to remember is ihnp4 (Indian Hills, Naperville)
- sybercecurity 2y agoBack then, there was a push to have NoVA be referred to as the "Silicon Dominion". Never caught on thankfully.