Facebook diminished the Good Ol IRC
reddit / irc

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livinlovindyin · 2018-11-09 16:29

Facebook and social media destroyed the Good Ol' IRC.  Been there for
20 years and thought to be for the rest of my life. Let's see

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svn · 2018-11-09 16:33

No, it was MSN Messenger.

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schwiftshop · 2018-11-09 17:03

IRC died way before social media. I used it heavily in the late 90's
and when I came back in the early 00's (I was gone for less than a
year, it happened fast), there was a huge reduction in users, and no
one was chatting in the main rooms anymore.

I never figured out why, I always assumed people hung out in private
channels or just talked via query.

It may be that AIM, ICQ and other platforms got more attention because
of default installs and changes in how people got online. I ran into a
lot of non-technical people when I first got into IRC, and that seemed
to change drastically over the years. I think noobs weren't being
turned on to the platform, or there was trouble getting reliable
connections.

That said, I was using DalNet, so it may have been something specific
with the network that happened that I was out of the loop for.

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jgkamat · 2018-11-10 01:15

IRC really isnt dead, I use it daily, and almost 80% of my
communication is through freenode, oftc, or esper. I would make it
100% but I'm a bit busy to set up a bridge myself.

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damonnz · 2018-11-19 04:46

I think there will always be a place for it for those just interested
in chat, writing scripts etc. It's a haven from (un)social media junk
and endless/mindless photos etc etc people will only ever look at
once!