Paying homage to AmIRC the great IRC client for Amiga OS

AmIRC was written with the magic user interface as front end.

https://www.amirc.org/

#RetroComputing #Commodore #Amiga #AmIRC #MUI

I've just made young friends of mine aware of Internet Relay Chat. They are so excited that we will be using IRC as a Communications protocol.

I have accounts on different server networks which are still thriving
I remember the wonderful Eggdrop bot running on the AmIRC channel on Dalnet

#IRC #IM #Dalnet #Eggdrop #Bot #AmIRC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC?wprov=sfla1

I've just finished reading this blog post regarding the markdown Syntax by RL Dane

He is also given a brief history of the Computing Hardware and software that he has used ever since he was a little Padawan.

The blog post is just a few minutes to read and you shall learn something good from it.

TLDR is; use {smackdown} markdown for everything you write that needs formatting and be truly platform independent in your formatted text creation.

When you truly understand what he means, it is literal total freedom with formatted text and you don't even need to learn tex or LaTeX, since you will not be writing a book.

When you do that you will have to read my posts regarding tex and LaTeX, and those are blog posts I haven't released.

For me markdown has been important, ever since I was working on waffle bulletin boards many many decades ago

*Bold* _underline_ /italic/ was the syntax that we used back then.

Our waffle bulletin board had a special text formatting routine which Made these codes look like they were actually bold underline and italic when we were viewing those emails.

On the #AmIRC channel on Dalnet we also had a formatting routines for our clients, mine was AmIRC that converted these codes in a similar fashion.

So in true Essence markdown has been with us for a very very long time; we just didn't call it markdown then but we made sure that our text formatting had nothing to do with the computer platform we happen to be typing on.

https://rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown.html

#Markdown #formatting #programming #Tex #LaTeX #HTML

@rl_dane

I reconnected with #AmIRC the client, you may ask? No. My favourite mail client #Thunderbird reminded me that it can connect to real instant mgs networks and it showed libera.chat as a network for #IRC
I immediately thought about the awsome #eggdrop #bot the AmIRC channel had on #Undernet so I went looking for a client for my #OpenSource OS which is #Linux on this machine #freeBSD on systems running a #ZFS #NAS distro

https://www.undernet.org/

#programming #OpenSource #POSIX #SocialMedia