#irc Chat

[astercontrol]

IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat.

Inside the computer system, this means the programs participate in a fun little Relay Race to transmit your messages.

Relay races usually involve passing a baton. Owing to the function of batons inside the computer world, this means the relay race is a form of triathlon 

The runner carrying the baton passes it to the lightcyclist, who activates it for the cycling portion of the race. Who then trades it in for a lightjet baton to relay to the pilot, who completes the final aeronautics portion.

[xe-5aj1700155-024]

WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED??? DID U SEE THAT?? LiVE??!!???

JUST WAS Pwn Newbs in Quake 2 !! What the fuck !!!

[opendirectories]

[blur-from-the-north]

September 2001. Oulu, Finland. Olympus Trip Junior, Fuji Superia 100 (?) film.

This is tolsun, a Sun-3 server that was in use at Department of Information Processing Science at University of Oulu. (TOL, or "Tietojenkäsittelyopin laitos", later "Tietojenkäsittelytieteen laitos", part of Faculty of Sciences). This server was the first ever Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server; the lead developer Jarkko Oikarinen worked there.

This was an exhibit of historic computer gear that was located at one of the corridors of University of Oulu campus, right next to the computer centre helpdesk and Unix laboratories (with Linux and SGI IRIX workstations). The display was removed when the computer centre moved (and much later the whole department moved to a new building). I regrettably don't know where these items are on display nowadays. Edit: Apparently on display in Vapriikki museum in Tampere.

(I originally posted a scan from positive to Wikimedia Commons under CC Attribution 2.5. This is a new scan from the negative.)

[tentajack]

I'm oddly homesick for forums. I miss seeing silly icon/signature combos made to match the aesthetic of the forum site the user was on. Hell, I miss the way most forums looked when they matched up to XP's aesthetics , shit felt so chill! The borders, the fonts, the use of gentle gradients and shadows, I miss these things in web design!!

[in-sufficientdata]

are you fucken telling me you came up with the idea of slapping me with a wet trout independently and not on irc

that's like a 4-year-old telling their mom something profound about jesus for her to post on twitter

if I hit you with a slobbering wet trout do you think you would go spalt or the trout

did you used to chat on irc a lot

[owlbelly]

grabbed a 2nd edition Vampire: the Masquerade player's guide from the thrift store today & it had two different people's mid-to-late 90s character sheets tucked inside :') they are so precious

someday i am actually gonna play this stupid game, for which i have been collecting books since like 2003 & without which i would not have become a TTRPG illustrator

[junipercalle]

Okay, now that Discord is going to get bled dry for quarterly bottom lines (they're looking for an IPO; also, I trust nothing about user privacy in this climate), what chat room clients do people use?

I never was an IRC user but I do know it exists. I've also had Revolt and Matrix suggested to me. Telegram is lousy on a desktop (and I trust my phone with little) so that's not the thing.

[mostlymarginalia]

I admit that I have a secret penchant for internet relay chat. But I accept and utilize the Discord app because I like my friends.

[bellshazes]

department group chat is talking about mushroom coffee this morning and it's not even Fun Question Friday

[cappucosmico]

also i'm planning on making a discord server to just unceremoniously dump all my willing friends into so that you can all sniff eachother through the door. i was gonna do that months ago but i got Erm. Distracted. looks over atthe 2 months of 6 cat householdery scared

[nickyflowers]

i put an IRC client on my BBS so you can IRC while you BBS. fantastic

[blastingtowardsbluerskies]

You. Green. Or Blue, I don't care who answer's.

Your little friend got stung and is currently hallucinating.

Come get him soon. Cinnabar, my world.

- Giovanni, @silverfilledstars .

We can read Silver’s blog for updates too y’know~! We’ll get him in a flash, don’t you worry!

[doppelgender]

ive completely run out of diversions in my life i need to get a ham radio or something

[saturnw0lf]

Thinking Outloud 12/18/2023

Even as bad as Discord is now, I'd rather go off the grid entirely than go back to any of the prior alternatives.

Facebook Messenger? What are you, a grandma?

Skype? Lol. Bloated. Flooded with ads. Microsoft took something good and ruined it, there's a reason we all left for greener pastures

TeamSpeak? Free Servers have what, 4 slots total? How is that convenient for anyone, especially if you're like me and have a fairly sizable friend group, plus we spend most of our time talking over text anyway

Mumble? Not the WORST alternative but it's also not the most convenient thing to use either, especially if you're not a super tech-savy person IRC? It's not 2002 anymore, you gotta let that shit go

[patzweigz]

even with the potential of other social media sites i DO plan on continuing to work on my personal website. follow me on neocities if you have one