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Anyone remember EFNet IRC in the mid-1990s? Bitcoin is going to be like that, except real money is at stake.
by api 14y ago
Anyone remember EFNet IRC in the mid-1990s? Bitcoin is going to be like that, except real money is at stake.
- skrebbel 14y agoI remember EFNet allright, but I've still no clue what you're talking about. At least to my understanding, EFNet was (is?) an IRC network. With channels. Where people chat. Maybe I missed some relevant history?
- yebyen 14y agoI think he's remembering #e or something like that, where I spent a great part of my childhood (before it moved to Freenode and forked to #gah) where things happened before the public knew, such as VA Linux, E17, offended.co.uk (author of feh), and MythTV. And ferite. (a c-like scripting language that I love, with regex's)
- api 14y agoBasically, the old IRC protocol was pretty brittle. You could break the network with DDOS attacks, exploits, etc. in order to get "ops" on IRC channels. This resulted in a sort of emergent hacker game called channel wars. Massive attacks were constantly being launched, to the point that running an IRC server became a way to have a serious target painted on your connection.
- yebyen 14y agoOh yes. Now I remember EFnet in the 90's.
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- andyzweb 14y agoI'm still banned for life from EFNet for some mid 90's transgressions.