It's really worth reading about the history of IRC.
reddit / irc

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kineticreality · 2011-12-02 05:07

I really believe irc is going to be around for a
Long long time

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Paimun · 2011-12-02 08:23

Same here, it's easily my favorite way to chat online.

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aperson · 2011-12-02 10:10

It's really the only way to chat.  Anything worthwhile, that is.

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LordGarak · 2011-12-02 12:46

The History is pretty thin for the late 90's when IRC was at its peak.
I first started using IRC around 95 and for me IRC died around 2001
being replaced by MSN and now Facebook. I was one of the last in my
channels to let it go, but sitting in silent channels with a bunch of
bots got old.

I hope Facebook dies a similar death soon. MSN seems to be done with
from my perspective. I wonder whats next.

The history I remember is all the IRC wars. Ping floods, DoS, massive
eggdrop nets... Oh the joys of a 14.4k modem. Seems like such a
distant memory. I started using linux in 96 because of IRC.
Downloading slackware disk sets, one 1.44meg disk a night for like two
months. What did you do when you were 12 years old?

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kineticreality · 2011-12-03 01:33

Played Doom and Duke Nukem :)

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LePwnz0rs · 2012-01-19 04:59

Would really love to see an early irc client..