#irc

I grew up when IRC was the main protocol to use for chatting about computer stuff in real-time. That was back on #freenode, when lilo used to run things (may he RIP).

Heck, when I worked at a previous company, we had an internal IRC server which we used to communicate internally with one-another.

So you end up understanding the "rules" -- especially around things like using pastebins, as well as knowing what can/cannot be shared easily.

That was ~20 years ago though.

Although IRC is still being used, even for some high-profile projects, I see more people join, and pasting in code snippets, treating them as markkdown code-blocks.

This, of course, won't wash with proper IRC clients such as #weechat -- which I've been a user of since forever.

Am I just getting old, or are people not aware of how to use IRC. I'm sure the young whipersnaper types will likely be ignorant, in which case if that's all it is... meh!

But it never used to be like this... 🙂