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by **Fly** on Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:14 pm

Talbas2001 wrote:The following is my opinion and nothing more

IRC ~Then and Now

I remember the first time that I downloaded an irc client and connected to my very first server. I remember that server well, it was DALnet. Within the first 5 minutes of being connected to it I was overwhelmed with DCC Chat requests (I knew nothing of personal protections then). It was either the chats or my client disconnecting for no reason (found out that it was DoS attacks later down the road). There were thousands of people to talk to about every subject you could imagine. Then came the era of non-irc chat clients, and something started to happen, the irc userbase began a steady decline. Logging onto an irc server you could still find many people to talk to, though not as many, they were the diehard soldiers of IRC. Script wars started to phase out, the new targets being the new chat software. Fast-forward to today, you have the diehards, and some Scripters still fighting the good fight. Maybe I'm getting sentimentel in my later years, but I miss the days of chaos sometimes.

But now is easier, and more people use chat

by **slordex** on Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:14 pm

I start IRC-ing about 1997 and quit around 2002. The reason is i'm start to work and connecting to irc server ( Dalnet ) was very difficult here in Indonesia, so i've started using yahoo mesenger to chat

by **bluebell** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:42 am

Oh Jeez, now that feels like forever. First it was back in 93 or 94 with winIrc and then moved to mIrc in '94. I was very young then with 14.4KBps dial up. But i recall the first night when I got on irc I was way to overwhelmed with everything. The idea of me sitting on my computer and talking to people from different part of the world and of different ages and backgrounds was way overwhelming. Back then I recall mostly computer related professionals were on everywhere. Somehow the community in general helped me understanding how everything was working beginning with what the hell was an IP address..Pretty much grew with the whole internet as it got better (or worse)..getting into netsplits..flood attacks...netbus..nukes...what not....and LOL not to mention having those online crushes Razz

Its quite amusing i still to keep in touch with some of them, back then they were maybe CS students and now some of then married with kids! Amazing how far we have come.

by **roogog** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:03 pm

lol winIrc...a blast from the past Smile

by **slave** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:35 pm

irc is a nice platform for meeting with new pplz and catching some new mates
i love irc . i cant think even for a single day with out irc
i got lots of friends from irc
even got my beloved from irc Razz

so guyz fankly speaking i am meeting you guyz is also bcoz of irc Razz

by **Fly** on Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:11 pm

Nowdays people prefer the easier way of "chating", the web chats Sad

( and messengers of MSN, Yahoo, ...)
Will Irc remains for a long time...? mmmhhh.... i don't think so Crying or Very sad

by **bluebell** on Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:14 pm

Fly wrote:Nowdays people prefer the easier way of "chating", the web chats
Will Irc remains for a long time...? mmmhhh.... i don't think so

Well the webchats are just fancy clientside user interface, they mostly connect to the irc servers in the backend. So i guess irc is gonna be there for a while longer. Though I would say IMs have taken over quite a bit.

by **roogog** on Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:46 am

Fly wrote:Nowdays people prefer the easier way of "chating", the web chats ( and messengers of MSN, Yahoo, ...)
Will Irc remains for a long time...? mmmhhh.... i don't think so

well i think there are mant people who don't like to use the stuff from msn or yahoo. They prefer the smaller independent way of doing things.

for your basic chatter i think they are fine, but for others they like the ability to write, or tinker with scripts etc on irc.

by **womack** on Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:02 am

well , i started usin irc when i was 12 .. at that time .. i didnt know anything . i didnt know that irc is also something which is very intrestin .. i learned stuff by myself ... and later i registerd my own channel..

by **executor** on Mon May 08, 2006 12:52 pm

i have 2 channels in undernet #brasovu & #centru-brasov join guys and have fun:D

by **nokompranos** on Wed May 10, 2006 5:21 pm

[quote="Talbas2001"]The following is my opinion and nothing more

IRC ~Then and Now

I remember the first time..........

1994 or 95 can't remember exactly but our college was chosen as one of the first IBM showcase schools. That meant we got high speed access and best of all we had access to Gopher. Everything was wide open. We ran dos-based gopher clients, posted messages in usenet and chatted using irc connecting to university of illinois. There were no websites, no browsers. I do remember that kids were flunking out cause they were spending all their time in MUDs.

by **slave** on Thu May 11, 2006 7:48 am

guyz why we dont have any channel or phoenix on dal net
i think we must have
bcoz lots of users are there so they can join and know about phoenix
what you think

by **blinker** on Thu May 11, 2006 8:10 am

Guys whats the best server for you?

by **nokompranos** on Fri May 12, 2006 3:41 pm

[quote="nokompranos"][quote="Talbas2001"]The following is my opinion and nothing more

IRC ~Then and Now

I remember when mosaic was first introduced...
http://web.archive.org/web/200106031039 ... re/Mosaic/

man what an idiotic idea I thought that was
who in their right mind would want to sit and click images all day long!!

by **luq** on Sun May 14, 2006 10:04 pm

Well, I lived a similar experience in other IRC network (long time ago). I miss the old times too. It was a jungle, everybody got involved on "irc-wars" where channel takeovers were continuous: all the people "fighting" to keep their own chat room, of course it was funny.

Also I prefer IRC networks, I dislike the IM systems, but, it seems they are the future :\

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