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/me remembers the good old days of IRC, the netsplits and all the other good & bad things of the internet wild west…


For me just now, I had to take a bit of a breather and calm down for a second, as soon as I saw "Exploring IRC" I was taken back 30 years in time or so, when IRC was brand newish, and it paid to have a text file somewhere full of details to join the network and find out, in realtime, what was happening in the world.

Oh, how woolly things were before the web.




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