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However, it wasn't as easy as it is now. As far as I know, most IRC servers don't let you send and receive SMS.
by calcnerd256 17y ago
However, it wasn't as easy as it is now. As far as I know, most IRC servers don't let you send and receive SMS.
- rfurmani 17y agoWhich does not actually make a difference here since for most of the time Iran was blocking all SMSes (I agree about the ease-of-use angle, it allowed technology-use to reach a critical mass)
- buugs 17y agoIt wasn't at a point in time where sms was even available
- calcnerd256 17y agoThat's a big part of my point. Each distinct interface for a given share is resistance in parallel. The fact that IRC then was (and now is) a single point of contact --you have to be on a network that both supports the only protocol that IRC uses and reaches from you to the server-- means sharing text remotely from anywhere in the world via IRC is more difficult than a heterogeneous system like Twitter because there is only one resistor in parallel here: the network from your computer (if you have a computer and are connected to such a network) to the IRC server.