Do you still use IRC?
 

I'm just wondering how many of you still use IRC networks.
Are you hanging around Freenode or so?

I'm very curious about this. Thanks for your answers :pimp

every single day. Started on efnet around 1990 and moved to undernet aroudn 1997. Undernet really sucks lately so we're back on efnet now :)

nope, since 2000 -2001 ? does it still exists? Those where some nice days :)) 2-3kbps .. 800x600 resolution, pentium 1~2 :)))

Not these days.

Used to be on Dalnet back in the day.

Sure don't.

Yup, just was in #linux and #mysql today for a complex query and to shoot the shit.

Back in the day, I ran a DALnet and Undernet server.

I used to love IRC. Met a girl once in an X-files chat room who always tried to get me to talk to her as "Mulder" in an erotic way. Too nerdy for me.

Right. And I'm a really hot blonde chick. :winkwink:

Are you for the most part a self taught prodigy:question

havent' been on irc in ages. But i popped into EFNet, and DALnet not too long ago.. not the same I'd have to say. :)

I would say that I'm not a prodigy. I'm no smarter than the average bear, I just work very hard at what I do ... and I refuse to give up, ever.

But if you're asking if I've had extensive schooling, no. The college I've had has been review material for things I learned long ago, unfortunately. Not many Ruby on Rails or MVC-PHP courses being taught at the local schools.

:1orglaugh

yes. freenode, efnet, couple other ones that are just for the couple channels the networks run. Generally lurk in a bunch of channels related to coding and systems.

I'm pretty sure there has never been a girl logged into IRC during the entire history of hte internet...

not true

On IRC right now.

you're soo wrong. ages ago when there were no facebook, skype, icq besides AOL IRC was practically infested with girls, of course they hang out on more social channels than the other ones


i was on dalnet back then. nowadays i hop in on freenode once in a while

Was on Dalnet many years ago with mIRC slapping people with trouts.

Fun times

Deleted my mIRC bots many moons ago... Not been back since.

yeah, mostly hanging out with old timers that still log in

No :pimp

Back in the aol hacking days when I used to make scroller progs, the aol elite used to meet up there..lol.

I wonder if anyone here ever used my programs. I spent hours and hours on those scrolls when I was a kid. The progs were called holocaust and second style.

Wow, those were the days. IRC was a big deal then. I remember cracking so many host and guide accounts, internals too. People got away with so much phishing then too.

Some people can't take a joke..

God, that was back in the day when my IBM Aptiva 66Mhz cost me $2300. I haven't been there in a few years though.

If you uses to use Inc and don't know this site http://bash.org/?top2 enjoy...

Fuck lol


<Tall Israeli> I think just about anyone who meets me and talks to me for long enough comes to terms with the fact that I am a very sick, twisted person. Also factor in a few mountain dews, a Peer-to-Peer connection, and boredom and you get what might be the funniest combination imaginable.
I had been downloading music yesterday evening. Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon, Flock of Seagulls, things like that. Then I realized that it'd be a funny joke to play on people if I were to change "Keep on Rolling" to "Hot Lesbian Sex". I watched as within minutes this file got 50 downloads. I was astounded.
Then the Tom got an idea.
An awful idea.
The Tom got a wonderful awful idea.
What if, perhaps, I was to change some of these names to sick pornography titles? I wonder if I'd get any bites?
And this is where the fun begins.
The first title I put up was "Naked boys dancing and eating cake." I sat in anticipation, waiting for my first download. Success, the first download came. Then the second. Then the third. This baby was steamrolling down the information super highway like a trucker with a hardon that has 2 miles left to the next truck stop. Before I knew it, I was getting twenty downloads. Then thirty. Then fifty. Can you imagine that in the end, rather than getting dancing boys naked and indulging themselves with sweets and frolicking in a dewy meadow, one-hundred thirty two people got a disappointing video of Led Zeppelin performing "Dazed and Confused" in front of a live audience? At this point, I had no choice but to continue.
The second title I put up was "My Ex-Girlfriend mowing the lawn naked." I thought that this was too far out to get any downloads. Alas, I was wrong. It got a download. Then two. Then thirty. In the end, seventy-eight sweaty, drooling fudges wanted to see my ex girlfriend mow the lawn stark naked. She's not even that hot. Rather then get their lawn-mowing beauty, they got the song "Ozone baby."
For the third title, I decided to transform "White Wedding" into the more intriguing "Elephant cock horse." I wish I could say I was kidding when this thing was downloaded one hundred eighty seven times. I guess there is something about horses and elephants showing their cocks that bring out the best in people. I nearly died of laughter at this point. "How can nearly two hundred people want to see naked animals? They're ALWAYS naked!" For sanctity's sake, we're going to leave this as a mystery. I hope I turned some people on to Billy Idol, hopefully distracting them long enough to forget that masturbating to horse and elephant genitalia are not really something their mothers would be proud of.
I couldn't stop myself from doing another. "Grandma Bingo Sex." Short and sweet. I couldn't stop myself from amusing.........myself..... "Grandma Bingo Sex." Surely not a common scenario, and surely not a scenario that would arouse many a twisted psyche. Apparently I know nothing about the human psyche. One hundred twenty two. ONE HUNDRED TWENTY TWO PEOPLE would like to see grandma getting bent over the bingo table, game card in hand, getting donkey punched by a 90 year old addle brained porn star. I rubbed my eyes just to double check. My eyes had to be lying to my brain. My penis had shriveled to the size of a 2 day old Wendys chicken nugget.
They asked for Grandma.
They got Joan Jett.
At this point I had to start taking puffs of my albuteral inhaler to keep from suffocating myself with laughter. "Girl on girl toe insertion (LEGAL)" was my next proud creation. Everyone likes 38 Special, so everyone won't feel like such dumb-asses after downloading this footy piece of crap. Never underestimate the inertia traveling behind a toe inserting itself into a rectum, friends. It's like a fudging semi hurling down Interstate 40 in the noonday sun. One hundred twelve people wanted to jerk to this. God have mercy on us.
At this point, for some odd reason, the user name "Enraged Baboon" popped into my head. "Enraged Baboon fudging a nipple factory." No way in hell would this get many downloads. Who could possibly type in any or all of those keywords? I guess people like seeing sweaty red-ass baboons, nostrils flaring, banging their chests like Marky Mark in the movie "Fear", having sex WITH each other in a factory that produces baby-bottle nipples. Imagine what those children would look like. One hundred seventy two people typed those magic words into Limewire, and got a hot steaming pile of monkey love. Well, it was Pink Floyd, but a man can dream, cant he?
This could all seem very disturbing. My final experiment, however, made me dizzy as my precious sack retreated into my pelvis. ...THREE PEOPLE...three disgusting, drooling, perverted, fudged up people, wielding a box of Puffs Plus and a tube of Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion, bright eyed and bushy tailed, wanted to see "An emu taking a vicious dump." How does one take a VICIOUS dump and how does an EMU take one, for that matter?
Ladies and gentlemen: this is why I have lost every last ounce of faith in humanity.
If I may quote Method:
"You're going to make a lot of sick people very unhappy."

Not much anymore. Once in a blue moon I'll hop on, but that's about it. IRC got me into a lot of trouble years and years ago. :) Dalnet and efnet.

I have been known to visit irc. Lace only hops on once in a blue moon cause he starts crying pretty quick

http://bash.org/?402242

i do, freenode (open source projects mainly , no trolling its nice)

and efnet from time to time.

http://irccloud.com is nice for staying connected

That's cool. I've just been running irssi with some plugins inside screen. :thumbsup

I keep a config for an irc server but I prefer silc.