SaustrupOct 8

I miss the #internet of the early #90s; the highlight probably being #IRC - #Internet Relay #Chat. The internet hadn't really made it into the average Danish home at this point, so getting access meant you'd have to be a student loitering at school or someone working at a large computer company or telco. Although I've been chatting with these people for ages - some for decades - there are still some I haven't met face to face yet. Once in a rare while it happens, but mostly unexpected as I don't visit IRC that often any more. One turned out to be a coworker. Another turned out to be my department head. Weird how that goes.

Here's thing I found on the 'Tubes that describes the whole thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbKenFipjo

Internet Relay Chat.

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Show threadcosOct 8
@saustrup as many mentioned already, IRC continues as Matrix for modern folk. You can even use command line clients if you want oldschool experience. It's open standard like IRC so anyone can write clients, bots or even servers.
Show threadSaustrupOct 8
@cos Aaaaaw, a command line client for Matrix might be just what I crave! :-)
Show threadSaustrup
@cos Found gomuks - while the text version seems to be somewhat deprecated, it does look very charming :-) https://github.com/gomuks/gomuks/tree/master
GitHub - gomuks/gomuks at master

A Matrix client written in Go. Contribute to gomuks/gomuks development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Oct 8 at 8:38amWeb