IRC server with old #mafia channel? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dashoaa · 2014-02-01 04:47 I remember way back there was a mafia channel that had their own web- based client, and also a standalone to download. Both apps connected to the channel so you could still play via an IRC . I've been looking for it but can't seem to find the client or the channel( there are a lot of IRC servers) the only think I remember is one of the mods' name was "Protected". I need help finding it again. I all else fails, at least a mafia channel that is active, since a lot seem to be dead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pteraspidomorphi · 2014-02-01 11:18 Hello. I am Protected. Nowadays we're at #discworld on irc.rizon.net . Mafia isn't always online, but join us there anyway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pival · 2014-02-01 16:44 Wow, talk about a small world! Don't know the channel or you, but I'm amazed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pteraspidomorphi · 2014-02-01 16:50 Not that amazing as I've been on IRC for 19 years and using that nickname for 15. Reddit on the other hand is pretty popular. This sub doesn't have a lot of subscribers, but for someone like me, as long as I'm on reddit, this was a pretty good place to look! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dashoaa · 2014-02-01 20:32 didn't expect that you'd answer, I'll check out the chan thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pteraspidomorphi · 2014-02-01 23:42 Sorry I missed you, was watching a movie. Drop by some other time! To answer your question, client's at http://mafia.myshelter.net/ . The following Mafia players were in the channel during your visit (some under different names): LazyGamer, Zero, Blender, Kieron, Kriszke, neotank, Dubby. Others who visit regularly: Kami-sama, broknglow, snorlax, drpepper. Any ring a bell? Your account still exists under dashoaa. Your recovery e-mail address is *******3@gmail.com . Judging by how no games or victories are recorded on it, you're from before those features were introduced, so probably 2008 or earlier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eggbean · 2014-02-01 23:46 I was first on IRC at university in 1994, but it was two or three years later that I became a regular. It's a bit sad how it's changed, as those days you got a lot of regular people on it, including girls, but nowadays is is only dorks, nerds and geeks. I still find Freenode really good for tech talk and help. My old regular channels are long gone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pteraspidomorphi · 2014-02-02 00:07 Heh, there are still girls on IRC, and the people who were on IRC in 1994 were most assuredly geeks. What else were they doing in there just when the internet was becoming popular? ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eggbean · 2014-02-02 00:15 Yeah sure they were still geeks those days, but not technical computer geeks that are all that are left these days. Since social media sites and other forms of online chat arrived, IRC and Usenet are nothing like they once were back in the '90s, and who are still there are a distinct subset of who were there before. There was hardly anything on the new WorldWideWeb those days. I mostly used Usenet, IRC, FTP and gopher servers. IRC was the most interesting feature of the internet for average university student, after whatever could be found through portals on the tiny WWW. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pteraspidomorphi · 2014-02-02 00:52 Indeed, IRC hooked me and I used it before the web. I remember when one day my classmate (I was a child at the time) who introduced me to the internet took me aside and said something along the lines of "Listen, there is more to the internet than IRC... Have you ever heard of Netscape?" Social media doesn't provide privacy or allow you to easily meet new people. Reddit does, but it doesn't provide real time interaction. You still need IRC for that combination. But young people arriving on the internet now are terrified of text conversations that are longer than a tweet or the little snippet of text they post with their latest instagram on facebook. It's a sad state of affairs.