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So many long forgotten relics and old friends lost to time.
bbs, usenet, irc, aol chat rooms, aim/icq/msn messenger (by the way, anyone remember Trillian?), geocities web-rings, various phpBB forums (shoutout neopages), oekaki drawing boards, livejournal, stumbleupon,
Trillian! I paid for the multi-messenger functionality too!
IRC is not dead. Since rexxit began I have started really searching for programming/data science/tech communities. I have found more than I know what to do with and many have an IRC. I just installed Pidgin on one of my Linix machines. Ha! What a time to be alive.
You may want to check out the Matrix protocol and existing implementations. There exist bridges for cross-communication with IRC and other communication networks and protocols.
Matrix.org is cool too. I use Element.
Rexxit, lol thats brilliant
Trillian!! That's a chain of neurons that's been dormant for about 15 years...
Oekaki drawing boards ಥ╭╮ಥ Oh how I miss thee...
I made an irc client in MIRC using MIRC script before it had multi-server capability and thought I was so smart and then a few months later they released the update with it in it. Oh well, it was fun at the time!
YES! Gosh I miss irc.
Yeah some of those I had forgotten! For me it was usenet, IRC, ICQ, Yahoo Chat Rooms (I was one of the kids that dropped booters and other pesky little bots and hacks into them all the time 😂 - I’m still friends to this day with someone I met via Yahoo Chatrooms though!) Definitely used Trillian, and the old phpBB forums before I found Reddit over 10 years ago…and now Lemmy
I never used it, but I did use similar things like Kopete and Pidgin. Both of those still exist and are still maintained, by the way, albeit far less useful now that the big four instant messaging systems are gone. Of those four, only ICQ still exists, and I doubt it still uses the same protocol, seeing as the old one wasn't encrypted.
IRC thrives! The dusty corners of the internet where people continue to develop the most obscure software functioning as an unknown pillar of the internet still have IRC channels available to discuss and interact.
Still remember my icq number lol.
Gosh icq...... this thread is making me tear up a little with nostalgia
Same. I logged in to their icq web client recently for shits. Was a trip to see all the old usernames.
You mean to tell me ICQ is still online after all these years?!
Yeah. You can dismiss the phone number thing, and log in with your icq number and password
https://web.icq.com/