[ih] Chat room and forum archives

[Dave Taht]

irc is still used heavily, despite all the cool kids moving to slack,
nothing beats it for
plugability. Perhaps hanging out on https://www.oftc.net/ would be of
use to more folk.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 8:43 AM Kauto Huopio via Internet-history
<internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
> I have been in IRC on some way or another since the beginning. Used to have
> a DAT tape somewhere where I archived the logs of the #news and other
> relevant channels during the Iraq war, the Moscow coup etc..don't know If
> could locate that tape and find a machine that would read it..
>
> IRC is still used in many mission-critical purposes..many ISP:s used to
> have their internal NOC/engineering IRC servers. Military uses a form of
> IRC..
>
> --Kauto
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 3:08 AM Jorge Amodio via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
> > Internet Relay Chat (aka IRC) was released in 1988... there were a couple
> > networks of servers like EFnet, Undernet, IRCnet, etc, and a handful of
> > servers on each network with a multi-channel (sort of chat room) multi
> > participant distributed chat protocol.
> >
> > You had the option to have 1:1 conversation but most of the activity was on
> > #channels you joined and chatted with others on that channel.
> >
> > Some networks are still active and you can download desktop clients or use
> > some web based clients.
> >
> > -J
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 6:41 PM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On 8/31/2022 3:53 PM, Bob Purvy via Internet-history wrote:
> > > > a character haunting the
> > > > chat rooms and forums on investing, around 1995 and on
> > >
> > > So, this was just as the Internet went mass-market.  Web coming into its
> > > own.  No social networking yet.
> > >
> > > There was 1:1 chat going back forever on many systems, but 1:many group
> > > venues were, I think, still only in specialized teleconferencing
> > > systems, dating from the gas crisis in 1972. Enterprise tool, not
> > > mass-market.
> > >
> > > The closest would be public discussion lists via email or, of course,
> > > Usenet.  I'm not sure, but I think by the 1995 timeframe, the latter had
> > > become established as, shall we say, mostly noise...
> > >
> > > d/
> > >
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