I used to be an IRC addict but haven't really chatted anywhere over the past few years. This weekend, I decided out of curiosity to see what was still around. It appeared to be dead on pretty much every network. Then, I went - again out of curiosity - and looked at chat websites and since MSN (which I never would have used anyway) doesn't have chat anymore..it leads me to ask if online chat is officially dead?
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instant messaging and social networking have crushed a lot of the 90's chatroom fad -
The chatrooms are dead since IM and networking sites like MySpace have popped up. But there are still a couple of them going around though there's not much people talking such as on Yahoo!
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see siggy but we often lurk.Comment
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Hm i am not sure i think its still alive but its not like 15-20 years agoComment
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go ahead and visit dalnet, you'll find a lot of channels still alive...---
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It's still used alot by warez groups, 'hackers' & gamers.. but yes it's dieing..Comment
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Mostly dead and the few that are left on Yahoo etc are absolutely filled with bots.Comment
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Well, its true up to some extent .. but you cant say dead. I have been an IRC addict too .. I still have some old nicks registered on DALnet which I identify every now and then to keep them registered. What I see that people on IRC are still doing all they used to .. posing as chicks, those tricky asl questions, for lil experienced people .. control codes, trying to be l33t, spam, inviting .. creating and promoting channels, flooding, nuke .. you name it.
you know lol .. whenever I see them now ... I say, damn .. how ignorant these people are
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C'est la vie
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I wouldn't say dead but it's nowhere near what it used to be since all the instant messengers sprang upComment
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nah stopped irc long ago.. went back to check out a copuple times
all it was just spam
so gave up on itComment
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You are looking in the wrong place..IRC has been on the skids for years. Social networking sites is where the chat is to be found today..and its by no means dying.
If you are used to IRC style chat, dealing with the limited features of a java or flash chat app my leave you wanting, but some of them arent too bad to use.Comment
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After years of daily IRCing, I finally figured it out...
The europeans screwed up Efnet pretty bad... its the @op problem as far as IRC goes, some jerk has the @ and when he wakes up and comes on, its his way or the highway.. thus you can see why its a channel of crickets. I found it to be all the Europeans that snuck their way into the bot list.. It's these anti-american fools that wake up and think they are better because of
their rising pound value.
If you know freenode, rocks now, and basically is suffering the same fate, as the Efnet mentality is slowing corrupting into freenode... and the same pompus control... So say the wrong thing and not be part of the IN CROWD
and its EGO time and troll calling.. which always leads to fun afternoon.. for me anyhow, i fuck with em dailyLast edited by mike-al; 01-21-2008, 10:55 AM.Delete this account, i am done hereComment
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If you don't mind chatting with bots, try Yahoo."WTF, on google you can find the answer to every question in human history, EXCEPT how to convert cams..
Its crazy..."
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I'm constantly suprised how many 18 year old girls want to chat with me in chatrooms, and they look good!!
Honestly the real online chat killer is webcam spammersComment
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do they still have "chat gangs" ... I remember these guys called "Seven Deadly Sins" or something. Great group of youngsters bot bombing each others IM clients ...
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irc is definitely NOT dead. You could call it more underground, but definitely not dead.230-699Comment
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As long as the blood ninja is around, online chat will never be dead.
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The young generation doesnt even know what IRC is, it will be dead soon enough.GetSCORECash.com | In the Biz Since 1991
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Why bothering chatting at all when there texting on your cell...i like wafflesComment
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I am a recovering IRC hooligan.
I used to cause the Vietnamese a lot of grief back in the days when VietChat was popular.
If you miss IRC that much check out http://www.bash.org ...... but of course you already knew that ...Comment
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I was addicted to IRC from about 1996 to 2001-2002ish.
I load it up about twice a year now; there's usually a large number of people who were there in 2002, and even some that were there in 1996.
Glad I got out of that, it was a big waste of time.
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never used irc,. used to go to some chatrooms few years ago ocassionally though
i think chatrooms got replaced with new kind of tools, namely both instant messangers and social networking sites
I also think using the web to meet new people isnn't as common as it used to be. I think all the social networks nowadays enable you often to renew the relations/friendships with your old friends from your past and as a consequence, you concentrate less and less on meeting new ones.
chatrooms, also arent that effective in meeting people, you dont know who's behind the nickname, so if you want to meet new people on the internet, meeting them through social networks and dating sites seems like a better wayI don't use ICQ anymore.Comment
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