IRC still rules. reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- antdude · 2022-05-17 06:47 :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- girraween · 2022-05-17 07:33 Hell yes! I just wish I had a server to be apart of. I join here and there, but I don't have any channels like I use to. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MrOtsKrad · 2022-05-17 12:51 I miss my interactive notepad... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cosmic_Husky · 2022-05-17 12:59 All of Twitch is chatting on a minor IRC-protocol variant. You can even log in to Twitch-chat with your regular IRC-client! There are hundreds of thousands of people on [Libera.Chat](https://Libera.Chat) alone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ION-8 · 2022-05-17 14:04 DCC FTW ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scrawn69 · 2022-05-17 14:52 Yes been on it from 1400 baud modem back in the day. Went to a BBS and telnet to a server and irssi and bitchx then joined undernet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2022-05-17 17:01 [removed] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- yuredarp · 2022-05-17 18:09 i never got into bbs or even newsgroups. are those two still worth exploring or are the content/community just not there anymore unlike irc? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thischildslife · 2022-05-17 22:28 rizon.net is where all the cool kids are. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack-Sparrow11 · 2022-05-18 14:29 can you recommend any channels? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lazy-xo · 2022-05-19 23:15 I’m playing really loose with the descriptions here so step back purists - so you’ve got a few things I’d advise looking at exploring - Usenet / nntp - and in some ways bbs I would categorize as different than the normal forum typically found today. Usenet and nntp were kind of the precursors to online communities today (like Reddit) threaded discussions etc News groups (Usenet) - think google groups (they bought Deja’s Usenet archives) - nntp - think of social media (network news transport protocol) used to post to Usenet - gopher think of menus driven web directories - the protocol is used to share documents, and the structure is almost like a mounted nfs drive - If you want a place to learn all of these and pretty much anything like em consider signing up at http://sdf.org - they offer free shells (extremely limited) but for a few bucks the doors open wide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lazy-xo · 2022-05-19 23:24 Libre is ok if you’re there for an open source or community project - I’d start by removing libre and dalnet off - to answer your question, yes but without knowing what kind of shit and what kind of people you consider fun to shoot the shit with specific channels are kinda impossible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- antdude · 2022-05-23 07:11 2400 or 14400? No such thing as 1400. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- antdude · 2022-05-23 07:12 They still exist, but on Internet. They're not popular like they used to be though. Explore them for your curiousity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scrawn69 · 2022-05-23 12:32 I had a blast with BBS's. I first started hitting local bbs' back in the mid 80's no our 1400 baud external. Then 14.4 baud ---------------------------------------------------------------------- antdude · 2022-05-23 13:22 Same, but late rad 80s and 2400 modems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- abbzer0 · 2022-05-28 13:12 Glad I no longer have to use /CTCP SEND .... Lol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- y2kbadbug · 2022-05-31 10:24 There are not hundreds of thousands of people on libera char lol.