IRC over phone call? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- qreilly00 · 2021-03-12 10:59 Hi. ​ Is it possible to have an IRC chat by transmitting audio over a phone call? How would I go about doing such a thing? ​ Thanks, Quinn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I-am-fun-at-parties · 2021-03-12 11:07 Yes, you need an old school modem, either one that can dial on itself or one that accepts a phone earpiece to put down on. On the other end of the phone call you'll have to have another modem and a system either providing you with a login+shell, or directly connecting on your behalf to IRC. It's pretty much the standard setup from idk 40ish years ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mcj · 2021-03-12 16:29 I believe what you are looking for is referred to as dial-up internet. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- r44_ · 2021-03-12 16:49 There are multiple tcp over audio frameworks available, but these requires quite some technical know how ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OMGItsCheezWTF · 2021-03-12 18:37 Doesn't even require dial up internet. You could open your modem up and let another user dial into you and host an IRC server, direct dialup networking. It's how we used to play games back in the day. I'd dial in to a local BBS and people would post phone numbers to dial into for doom games. It's also how a few of us would play GTA when that first came out, with direct dialing into each others modems, and that was as late as 1997 when many online gaming services were already using the internet by then. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- qreilly00 · 2021-03-12 20:20 That makes sense. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- qreilly00 · 2021-03-12 20:20 I'll give it a look. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- qreilly00 · 2021-03-12 20:21 I think that's the term I was looking for lol. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- qreilly00 · 2021-03-12 20:22 Pretty cool story. Maybe I was born too soon lol. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- erroneousbosh · 2021-03-12 22:17 I still look after several hundred dialup and ISDN modems at work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-04-09 02:25 this makes zero sense. use dial up internet.