Internet Relay Chat

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channel- #TallPaulTech

[BenScarboro]

The IRC was just great for shy people, like I was... I met my wife on the Undernet IRC!

[mindshelfpro]

I loved IRC in the late 1990's early 2000's... books, music downloads, cricket commentary, tennis commentary before we had cable TV, and I loved the Quiz channels. Programming help early on... Undernet was my favourite... memories!

[therealdjflip]

I remember the good ol days of irc, wrote many scripts (including games) back in the days.
Have even built my own servers in the past

[TallPaulTech]

I hate bad spelling... and I meant to write channel in there! I blame writing on the tablet :)

[dono]

I used to be on IRC in the mid 90s. I recall using mIRC as the client. Back then, there seemed to be a stigma against "chat rooms". It seemed best not to tell your "real life" friends about it.
IRC was probably the cause of my first Internet addiction. I always wanted to be online to keep up with me friends, many of which were in other timezones. That has since become normalized so much that people don't even talk about it anymore.

[darrinpearce]

Hi Paul, been an IRC user for about 25+yrs now. Still using MIRC amongst other clients. Will pop up on your channel. Good to see IRC is still alive and well. Seems still a "thing" amongst the tech community. Thanks for the videos, always look forward to them.

[jimlynch]

I've been using IRC for many years now, but never knew how it worked. Now I know, thanks.

[jaromanda]

"since the dead sea was just sick" - spat coffee all over my keyboard - comedy gold! 🏆

[muddyland]

Matrix is another great chat protocol. It’s decentralized and e2e encrypted (if you encrypt your channel/chat). You can also self-host a server though it’s not as light as IRC. Tons of clients for it as well. Biggest difference is that you can follow channels on other servers from your “home” server.

Love the content, Never got into IRC personally but I hear all kinds of stories. I feel like I missed out!

[AdrianPatten]

Pretty sure it was back in 2003 when I last used it. (or 20 years since I last seen a Netsplit -lol)

[NenadKralj]

this is brilliant 😎 I've needed this 😁(you are a smart man) 🤝

[nerfz]

Just discovered your channel, loving your content like this mate. use to spend hours on mIRC back in the day

[Darkk]

Good ole IRC. I remember in the 1990s and throughout 2000s I've used mIRC on Windows. I used to be a regular on Undernet. Have to revisit this on my Linux machine. Weechat looks pretty cool.

[opnbfqs]

Great video! I need more information about irc.

[sprintst]

Loved IRC. Hours and hours hours spent.

[rogo]

I'm too young to 'remember' hype of IRC, but I like the idea of easy protocol that just tells how to text somewhere, without any crypto overhead (because it can be done with other tools). I'd preffer if it was just about how to send messages, files (big static chunk) and streams; basically duplicating what TCP already does, but that will be handy if we want to use one port instead of several and without telling people that "if you want to call someone or share screen, use those mr robot hacker tools to encrypt and send someone your voice, and by the way you'll need to open ports on your router" and get back only "what's the router, nerd?". From this point of view I think IRC is a little bit bloated because it has all sorts of commands for server to work with, and it's authorization is crap. Instead of that we could just use what already exist, like gpg for signing messages for authentication + authorization. Channels can be just a 64-bit handlers for routing purpose only. And so on. I think we need IRC-2 now, instead of Matrix, Tox, Signal, etc.

[wpattison]

been decades since i've been on irc - thanks for the kick in the pants to get back on

[alshatrihakimushamavu]

hey Paul, i really like your we-chat program is there a source code?

[thefivews]

I haven’t been in irc In years like 5 to 6

[PhilWerpy]

I'm looking for a standalone mirc-like chat program. Do you know of any?