EventHorizon

IRC is somewhat of a relic of an age of computing gone by. back before the dotcom boom, back before iPods, even before the advent of the Nintendo 64, this near instantaneous and primitive form of communication led the way for people to quickly share ideas and thoughts. the crazy part is that they're still up and running. I kinda like them to be honest. In a world where alot of social interaction happens on social networking sites, meeting unfamiliar people on the internet is a virtual impossibility with the exception of dating sites, and even those aren't so adventurous when you know the people that frequent those sites are looking for either 1 of 2 things. so what happened to finding a channel that interested you on the internet and talking to some random stranger about anything that interested you? to me, people in general (with exceptions of course) have accepted the internet and computing as a fact of life rather than a technology to be further explored. IMO IRC is one of the few relics left that allow you to make unlikely friends that aren't "mutual friends" with someone you know on Facebook (previously the Top 8 on MySpace).

Does TFP think that IRC is going to die out? What are your favorite channels? who is the most interesting person you've met on and IRC? is IRC going to be the new 'underground' culture once websites become/became the new social centers of society? Have you ever learned anything interesting on an IRC? what was it?

__________________
Does Marcellus Wallace have the appearance of a female canine? Then for what reason did you attempt to copulate with him as if he were a female canine?

Quote:

Originally Posted by canuckguy Pretty simple really, do your own thing as long as it does not fuck with anyone's enjoyment of life.

chinese crested

Event - I have tried to answer your question - not knowing what an IRC is, I lookede it up on wicki and am now rather giddy. So sorry - communications change I know that. As a girl, my aunt was taught semaphore - so they could communicate over distances - miles if one was on top of a hill I am told. Sounds like a skill that had uses, although not many know of it now. If the children of today were given a coupleof flags to wave instead of mobiles, think how much fitter they would be. Wonder what they will be using when you are in your eighties.

EventHorizon

IRC made you giddy? When i'm in my eighties people will probably be communicating with smoke signals if we finally end up nuking ourselves

__________________
Does Marcellus Wallace have the appearance of a female canine? Then for what reason did you attempt to copulate with him as if he were a female canine?

Quote:

Originally Posted by canuckguy Pretty simple really, do your own thing as long as it does not fuck with anyone's enjoyment of life.

LordEden

I was a IRC chatter back in HS and a little into college. I loved it, simple yet effective.

I still use IRC now, I hang out in the #powershell channel to grab various tid-bits of info about the scripting language.

As for being the next big "underground" thing? I seriously doubt it. It's like saying Usenet it the next big underground thing. People can use various "random" (chat roulette, Tinychat, or that random single user chat, I forget the name) chatting programs to meet people on the net. Usually IRC is for specialized chat channels or for someone that wants a chat that is simple to maintain and to connect too. You can have a IRC channel up and running in a matter of minutes.

IRC is nice, but I like having a bit more "fluff" to my chat (voice, Video, ect).

__________________
Vice-President of the CinnamonGirl Fan Club - The Meat of the Zombiesquirrel and CinnamonGirl Sandwich

chinese crested

Event - I aint that old! Take up semaphore now - you will be able to barter your long distance communication skills for turnips and all sorts of whatnots in the event of global catastrophy.

dlish

I IRC'd for the first time way back in 1996. The first person i ever spoke to was an african girl from sierra leone who spoke english and french. Im not sure why, but shes one of the fondest memories ive had, primarily because this was my first introduction to the internet.

after that i kind of got hooked on mIRC for a little while when i introduced my friends to it and we all hung out there ( kind of like this place). I havent been back in many many years, but im hoping that khaled mardam-bey has updated it with video and voice.

i personally dont see IRC as an underground. not unless you think myspace is an underground. in 10 years time it will probably be in the same category as an Atari2600 if they've failed to upgrade it

__________________
An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy

drj

IRC won't be going away any time soon. I hang out on 5 or 6 different networks.

Its used heavily in the open source development world... it provides easy on-the-spot interaction between developers, or even users and developers... it can be great for help technical issues for topics of interest, especially in computing (and sometimes not-so-great).

There's just something a little different about its style, compared with instant messaging, google chats, facebook chats, etc. Nothing else quite matches it. You don't necessarily have something of interest to say to an individual on your contact list, but sometimes you can offer it up to the channel, somebody bites, and a conversation starts, real time. You don't quite get that with anything else... twitter, facebook, sorta.. but not quite the same.

Its always been a haven for pirates too... if they ever manage to shut down bit torrent sites and the like, IRC will still be going strong with all the music, movies and software that you can eat..

AquaFox

I just spent 15 mins trying to connect to different channels but couldn't find anyone to talk to. Anyone have some good channel recommendations? :-) I miss chatting like this.

__________________


...AquaFox...