Post AvGUF38eyJsV76f0CW by johannes@mastodon.jhjacobs.nl
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(DIR) Post #AvGG06aAUHY85lVULQ by internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-18T17:04:09Z
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As one of the most popular IRC (Internet Relay Chat) clients, mIRC helped shape the culture of real-time online communities in the 1990s. With a friendly interface and customizable scripts, it introduced many to the power of group chat and global conversation.While IRC is less prominent today, mIRC continues to support a dedicated base of developers, hobbyists, and open source communities.Explore the history of your favorite websites with the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/🧵
(DIR) Post #AvGG07cgcP9rJrh0uO by internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-18T17:04:09Z
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IRC started in 1988 when Jarkko Oikarinen created a real-time chat protocol 🌐 It soon grew into major networks like EFnet (1990) and Undernet (1992), shaping online communities long before social media. Here's a May 1993 memo by J. Oikarinen and D. Reed about IRC protocol that defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community: https://archive.org/details/rfc1459
(DIR) Post #AvGHnHwV8g77T7y9dw by zeank@mastodon.social
2025-06-18T17:12:36Z
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@internetarchive still haven’t recovered from being slapped around by a large trout
(DIR) Post #AvGIb5AktMl0LHNcwa by ranx@mastodon.social
2025-06-18T17:13:18Z
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@internetarchive I liked DALnet and their Bahamut IRCd with services, but that was 20+ years ago 🙃
(DIR) Post #AvGJT86iCFd158GDNQ by satchmo35@mas.to
2025-06-18T17:25:20Z
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@internetarchive I used DALnet from about 1994 - 2001 and had a blast...Op attacks notwithstanding!
(DIR) Post #AvGKJAexx3rS3Z67eK by hacknorris@mstdn.social
2025-06-18T17:33:26Z
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@internetarchive using and enjoying (not only on libera) :)
(DIR) Post #AvGL64o0VQee5ce9gm by ajlewis2@social.vivaldi.net
2025-06-18T17:58:14Z
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@internetarchive Fond recollections of using IRC for a weekly Linux chat in the late 90s.
(DIR) Post #AvGLL64A6LlELKMhcm by Toch@mastodon.social
2025-06-18T17:58:13Z
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@internetarchive a lot of memories 🥰
(DIR) Post #AvGMy19qNt6cMs95fc by anthony@accioly.social
2025-06-18T18:21:07Z
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1/3 - @internetarchive I miss being a kid on mIRC. Before what most people today classify as social media, before ICQ, MSN Messenger, FrontPage 98, StarCraft, RuneScape, Napster, BitTorrent, or Stack Overflow. I was a kid fresh out of BBS discovering the “Information Superhighway” on a dial-up connection.#IRC #EarlyInternet #FreeInternet #Hacking #Nostalgia
(DIR) Post #AvGMy69fnwwLrn6WbA by anthony@accioly.social
2025-06-18T18:22:09Z
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2/3 - IRC was magical. Folks would gather to chat about random things, ask and answer questions about the basics of coding, upload and download the latest bootlegged music from your favourite band, mess around with bots that still put some of the stuff on Discord and Slack to shame, and basically just hack and mess around. IRC is still alive and well, although it's not quite the same.
(DIR) Post #AvGMyOqWJNuPptHzsm by anthony@accioly.social
2025-06-18T18:24:06Z
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Maybe decentralised social media like ActivityPub and Nostr can be to a new generation what IRC was to mine. So, if you happen to meet some enthusiastic young folks joining your community, be as kind and helpful as you can. You might be helping someone take their very first steps on a great journey of hacking and building. And one day, they may look back on Fedi / Nostr with the same joyful memories I have about IRC.
(DIR) Post #AvGUF38eyJsV76f0CW by johannes@mastodon.jhjacobs.nl
2025-06-18T19:43:51Z
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@internetarchive DALnet, IRCnet, DUTCHnet, been there, done that :) i'm still on IRC today!
(DIR) Post #AvGVAc9nRmQOE9dnyS by wgarmil@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-06-18T19:53:20Z
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@internetarchive I still use MIRC. I even paid for the license long enough ago that when the license format changed, they creator had to send me a new license code because the old one no longer was supported, he was surprised someone who bought it that long ago was still using it.
(DIR) Post #AvGYd3QpvuiAn0rdqK by velkro@opencoaster.net
2025-06-18T20:33:16Z
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@internetarchive I used mIRC so much back in the late 90's. I loved scripting various bots to use in the channels I participated in. It actually got me interested in computer programming.
(DIR) Post #AvGhU9vRJtXXuV0n2G by brainwagon@mastodon.social
2025-06-18T22:12:36Z
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@internetarchive It also happens to be how I met my wife. We are celebrating our 25th anniversary this week.
(DIR) Post #AvGiZYWnNLupcEccJU by rowanshielding@mastodon.social
2025-06-18T22:25:06Z
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@internetarchive In all my time on IRC, I don’t remember ever using this client. I always used a PuTTY session to a BSD server hosting my login just so I could keep my username.
(DIR) Post #AvHRQjhUxk9Fb8nSCG by placebo@mastodon.ie
2025-06-19T06:47:18Z
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@internetarchive mIRC scripts introduced me to programming 20-something years ago.
(DIR) Post #AvHyHrYJhHF3pbsWzw by neffo@mas.to
2025-06-19T12:55:44Z
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@internetarchive IRC the first federated social network?
(DIR) Post #AvKnX6xsA2krxBmRhQ by ddlyh@topspicy.social
2025-06-20T21:39:12Z
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@internetarchiveRIP irc.foonetic.net...