Hexchat network for downloading books/textbooks
reddit / irc

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MeowWhat · 2020-01-28 16:53

I mean if you can find a server that distributes those things. It's
been a while since I went on IRC for media but all I remember seeing
is TV shows, movies, anime, music and warez.  Maybe go on rizon?

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[deleted] · 2020-01-28 23:39

May be wrong but weren’t the two main ones Undernet and Irchighway?

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MeowWhat · 2020-01-29 00:11

Undernet I'm familiar with the other one not at all. My time was spent
on sorcery at first and then later rizon, dalnet, efnet and snoonet.
I've toyed around with a few other servers over time but especially on
the smaller servers noone is really active. I should go exploring
again though. I miss queuing up stuff for dcc.

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[deleted] · 2020-01-29 00:44

Wow you get around a lot more than me, I just found out about IRC a
week ago looking for textbooks aha. I’ll have to check those out.

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MeowWhat · 2020-01-29 02:36

IRC is super old. I was using it in my teen years for anime and even
then it was old. It remains my favorite way to chat in 2020 though.
Plus if any still exist, chats with script bots can be a lot if fun.
Me and a buddy used to build bots designed to permanently kick ban the
other, kinda like internet robot wars. There was (is?) a pokemon
battle bot that was run on sorcery then later rizon I think that we
used. I actually still own a copy of RSbot but have absolutely no idea
how to use it.

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K41namor · 2020-02-07 13:47

Efnet was a main place for media. They actually used to have huge
ebook channels. With searchable bots for specific books.