daniel:// stenberg://The Serial Port made this lovely IRC documentary
(and yes, I got a "thanks" in the ending credits as I contributed with facts)
YouTube
IRC has a special place in my heart: https://un.curl.dev/mine/dancer.html
Christian
stdevel@bagder Lovely story! The Serial Port is IMHO one of the most underrated YouTube channels. Very high quality content - awesome, that you contributed to it.
Pyksy@bagder
Wait, wat? You contributed to Dancer IRC bot too?!
I'm still running one to this day. Never bothered to migrate away, as it still works good enough. Its origins are somewhere in the late 90s...
not a martian, honest@pyksy we started Dancer in the 95/96 time frame. I don't have any records left from then so I given an exact date. The code was later imported into sourceforge but I don't think we kept the history properly when we did that...
Mx Autumn 
@bagder mine too. My first interaction with people on the internet was via IRC in 1999 watching a safari cam and sharing snapshots of when we saw wild animals.
Moritz Dietz@bagder I absolutely in awe that you wrote this down! Thank you for being you and getting enjoyment out of this!
Jyrki 
@bagder was already wondering about the mention :D
Jim Fuller
Ville 'cos' R@bagder I was on IRC about 25 years, ~1995-2020. Lot of good memories. Now it's replaced by Matrix which is the modern successor for it, but I'm still on many originally IRC channels that have been bridged.
I've written some clients and bots, but the protocol itself isn't something I miss.. It's a product of late 80's.
Antti@bagder Jarkko was there when I studied at TOL (home of the tolsun) and I still work there. Nice documentary! Will share with the students next week when the courses begin.