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I wrote an Irc script called TextBox as a teenager. Among other things it was one of the first that could implement Irc bots via DCC RAW tcp connections from th
by api 12y ago
I wrote an Irc script called TextBox as a teenager. Among other things it was one of the first that could implement Irc bots via DCC RAW tcp connections from the script itself, allowing you to martial armies of channel takeover bots. Seemed cool when I was 15, and it was actually through Irc channel wars that I learned the basics of network protocol design.
- raldi 12y agoHoly shit! You're the guy who wrote textbox.irc?! /me bows (For those of you who didn't have shell accounts in 1994, this is like being the inventor of the AK-47 and the skateboard at the same time.)
- api 12y agoLol. Yeah, those were fun times. Old school IRC was basically a non stop CTF tournament. I wrote TextBox on a Linux 486 with kernel 0.99.15 I think, or maybe 1.0.x, and a shell account on a Sun SparcStation via a local ISP. http://adam.ierymenko.name/ye_olde_source_code.html http://adam.ierymenko.name/ye_olde_source_code.html That page has TextBox and also my first nontrivial c program, a nick collider.