Do it Isildur! Cast the usenet groups into the fires from whence they came!
Boo. They shall be reborn like the phoenix from the flame. Just click your heels together three times…
IRC is still around. I have mIRC on my desktop.
Is bash.org still around? Time for a history lesson
No. Feel old yet?
I do.
Oh my God it’s really gone.
I am but dust, now. Dust wearing a wizard hat, but still.
Nooooo! It’s not possible!
Search your feelings…
Please enlighten me internet boomers.
Basically this (Discord), but faster, with more text and no images. And without the looming threat of eventual enshitification.
/me ducks
ICQ > IRC
Yes, I’m that exact age.
I had an icq too. I have a fun anecdote about it : I lived in small village in the countryside in France and someone from Mexico contacted me, because one of their cousin lived in my village. They gave me their email and I brought it to my friend.
Man, the early Internet was so cool
It was a big village back then. People wished you welcome when you visited their page, with their collection of kitch gifs.
Now it’s just a giant shopping center…
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Does Discord have trivia bots? That’s my main IRC memory.
Maybe it isn’t as fun in an age of Wikipedia and highly effective search engines.
It does. There’s also card collecting games and other stuff like that
With the amount of ads, effective search engines will soon be a thing of the past!
I put a bunch of effort once actually getting my eggdrop bot (with trivia) on discord. It worked fairly well but all the questions were made in the 90s so it wasn’t as fun for the larger age range in our server lol.
It’s funny. IRC always reminded of dial up BBS chat. Kids these days and their threaded chat…
The thing about getting old in the civilization we’ve made for ourselves is you’ll likely increasingly come to welcome the idea of your part in it ending.
/slap
Funderpants has quit ( * .net, * .split)
/disco mode on ftw
Dal.net gang
I wonder what happened to mr IRC friends… At this point I can’t even remember their usernames.
