Exploring Irc (internet Relay Chat)

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IrcInternet Relay ChatReal-Time CommunicationLegacy Technology

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Irc

Internet Relay Chat

Real-Time Communication

Legacy Technology

The post explores IRC, a legacy real-time communication protocol, and its continued relevance, sparking discussion on its history, usage, and comparison to modern alternatives.

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NKosmatos

3 months ago

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/me remembers the good old days of IRC, the netsplits and all the other good & bad things of the internet wild west…

MomsAVoxell

3 months ago

For me just now, I had to take a bit of a breather and calm down for a second, as soon as I saw "Exploring IRC" I was taken back 30 years in time or so, when IRC was brand newish, and it paid to have a text file somewhere full of details to join the network and find out, in realtime, what was happening in the world.

Oh, how woolly things were before the web.

dan-bailey

3 months ago

"I Repeat Classes"...

Lapsa

3 months ago

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omgmajk

3 months ago

Some communities are still heavily invested in IRC. It's good to see the same faces from 10-20 years ago still around.

Showfom

3 months ago

I now use Matrix and Telegram instead of IRC.

sans_souse

3 months ago

https://netsplit.de is a good resource for finding servers and networks as well as chat rooms across all of them, and a healthy dose of analytics data as well.

kaggie

3 months ago

Feels really weird seeing my post on HN lol. Glad people like it, I'm making some small edits for clarity today

dewey

3 months ago

These days I just use https://www.irccloud.com/ as it comes with a decent mobile app and a good web interface and everything is in sync like any modern chat app. Getting this working with znc is a lot of work.

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