It's been almost 20 years. Are there still any good (Dutch) IRC
Channels
reddit / irc

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Makesyousmile · 2017-08-22 06:19

Hi,

Last week i came across some really old IRC logs and out of curiosity
I decided to give it another go.

In 1999 i used to chat with a big group of friends in a Dutch channel
named #Holland on Undernet's Amsterdam server. I even met my
girlfriend there. I still remember friends saying i was an absolute
geek for meeting people on the internet and visit them in real life
;-).

Although most people in this channel knew each other in real life, I
really liked the fact IRC was text-based only. You really had to take
the time to get to know new people and at the time you considered
someone as "friend" you knew much more about them then pretty much any
of the 500 "online" friends you have on Facebook right now*.

Off course the #Holland channel is dead and populated by bots but i
wondered if there are still some active non-specific (general) Dutch
chatrooms on IRC these days.

In 1999, spending some time installing and configuring a desktop app
with a friend around was normal. That's why i expect the use of IRC to
be limited to somewhat geeky people like me.

But ,[TL;DR] does anyone know of any Dutch non specific (general chat)
channels still in use today?

*It's a bit subjective :-)

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Comakip · 2017-08-30 22:16

/r/thenetherlands got a channel on freenode: #thenetherlands

They also got a discord.

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Y4kuzi · 2017-09-11 10:35

If you're still looking for a Dutch IRC server, I just set up
irc.provisionweb.org a while back. I recommend connecting through SSL
on port 6697. Keep in mind that it's just a new server, so not much
activity yet. Feel free to hang around and idle. We speak Dutch and
English, no specific topics. Everyone is welcome.