2y ago

Feeling old yet?

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Do it Isildur! Cast the usenet groups into the fires from whence they came!
Is bash.org still around? Time for a history lesson
- No. Feel old yet?
  I do.
  
  Oh my God it's really gone.
  I am but dust, now. Dust wearing a wizard hat, but still.
IRC is still around. I have mIRC on my desktop.
Please enlighten me internet boomers.
Basically this (Discord), but faster, with more text and no images. And without the looming threat of eventual enshitification.
/me ducks
ICQ > IRC
Yes, I'm that exact age.
- I had an icq too. I have a fun anecdote about it : I lived in small village in the countryside in France and someone from Mexico contacted me, because one of their cousin lived in my village. They gave me their email and I brought it to my friend.
  
  Man, the early Internet was so cool
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Does Discord have trivia bots? That's my main IRC memory.
Maybe it isn't as fun in an age of Wikipedia and highly effective search engines.
- It does. There's also card collecting games and other stuff like that
- I put a bunch of effort once actually getting my eggdrop bot (with trivia) on discord. It worked fairly well but all the questions were made in the 90s so it wasn't as fun for the larger age range in our server lol.
- With the amount of ads, effective search engines will soon be a thing of the past!
The thing about getting old in the civilization we've made for ourselves is you'll likely increasingly come to welcome the idea of your part in it ending.
It's funny. IRC always reminded of dial up BBS chat. Kids these days and their threaded chat...
/slap
- Funderpants has quit ( * .net, * .split)
  
  /disco mode on ftw
I wonder what happened to mr IRC friends... At this point I can't even remember their usernames.
Dal.net gang

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