Still use IRC and it's great. Bowl After Bowl has even been working on a IRC to Nostr bridge for the live shows.

asl?

Watched this yesterday. The host is my longtime friend. We worked at Microsoft together years ago. I’m actually having coffee with him next week. I’m going to introduce him to nostr. 🙏

The Internet was a place to escape TO, rather to escape FROM 🤯

Wen a brief history of #bitchat?

thanks for the education

Always go full Calle

In 1994, I download mIRC and joined irc.worldvillage.com. I was a bad kid and the owned called my ISP, got my phone number, and called my dad 🤣 From there I eventually found Efnet where I setup home for the next decade, running various Eggdrop bots, TCL scripts, and of course many screens with b...

To this day, I prefer terminal-based *nix applications.

For me it all started with FIDOnet

IRC was quaint in the 90s when you could envision all your friends in their respective computer rooms, planted in front of their CRTs. Now when you're chatting you have no idea where anyone is and it feels less cozy.

Thanks for sharing