IRC

[IronWarrior]

Still using IRC, it never closes, been using it since 2002. In the beginning it was to play C&C Renegade where we could monitor and admin our servers without joining the game, later on the America's Army IRC server helping players and many years later, mostly for Anime release groups and translation groups.

Server I hang out is pretty active in a few channels, the community in the channels are like rocks, we all use Discord too, but it doesn't replace IRC. Never paid for mIRC.

 

[A2Z]

#5on5 was probably the channel I used the most back on mIRC when I played 1.6. Was kinda fun. Thinking about it makes me really miss those days just gaming 24/7 being part of online communities..ahh..

 

[Ugley_Matt]

A/S/L?

 

[TJM]

I still lurk on IRC. Warez communities are still strong.

I'll never forget the agony of attempting a file transfer over IRC. When I think of the days wasted waiting for upload slots on bots to open up...

The chat itself was interesting but I (aged 16 or so) fell in with a crowd of 20/30 somethings who I didn't realise were embittered and in the 'Hide stupidity with aggression' camp until they had warped my views on life. Fun times.

 

[Ugley_Matt]

I'll never forget the agony of attempting a file transfer over IRC. When I think of the days wasted waiting for upload slots on bots to open up...

The chat itself was interesting but I (aged 16 or so) fell in with a crowd of 20/30 somethings who I didn't realise were embittered and in the 'Hide stupidity with aggression' camp until they had warped my views on life. Fun times.

I only took a programming course at uni as it gave you 24 hour access to the IT labs, running NT at the time, so could IRC day and night

 

[Cyclone]

A/S/L?

lol, thats what I remember from using IRC

 

[Rroff]

Yeah I paid for mIRC.

Haven't touched it in 10+ years though. IIRC I was permanently connected using a BNC for like 10 years upto ~2006 - used to hang out on enterthegame and quakenet plus some smaller ones like idsoftware's styx.

 

[darkgen]

ahh irc.funet.fi and ze daemons before some bright spark compiled the ircII client at uni. #amiga #dl-bar #england #gb #uk on efnet (before the great divide). Fun times ...

 

[Hades]

IRC, ICQ and dial up Quake 2 CTF. Fun, fun times.

 

[Feek]

/me remembers using mIRC in the early hours to avoid people kicking me off dial up

I still use /me sometimes in different places and am always disappointed that it doesn’t do what I want it to.

 

[gronf]

Good times on Sysnode (mIRC) 10+ years ago. None of that nowadays - too busy with work etc.

 

[Ugley_Matt]

All these kids thinking Slack is the great new thing when its just IRC with a facelift.

4 way lan DoomII and then 8 way Descent in the Physics labs 486DX was the best times

 

[Ugley_Matt]

Plus when we realised we could grant access to our megre 4MB home accounts to each other so that we could share software installs. This was on Windows 3.1 and we had a 95 like custom task bar installed.

Then one of us discovered the open mail drive account that had hundreds of MB of disk space so we started using that. Until the IT team found out and we got in a little bit of bother. lol.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

ICQ for the hot ladies and mIRC for trolling the numpties on Arnie’s Airsoft.

Halcyon days!

 

[LiE]

I used it a few years ago when playing the online text based game Utopia, we had a very active team on there and used a bot to help with some of the game related stuff.

Discord is the modern day IRC for gamers.

 

[Rroff]

Plus when we realised we could grant access to our megre 4MB home accounts to each other so that we could share software installs. This was on Windows 3.1 and we had a 95 like custom task bar installed.

Then one of us discovered the open mail drive account that had hundreds of MB of disk space so we started using that. Until the IT team found out and we got in a little bit of bother. lol.

Hah reminds me of the way the anti-virus used for communicating/quarantine on the college network - I misused it to create an IRC like chat program in VB3 we used internally - eventually the IT staff found it but they couldn't do anything about it without killing the AV so amused themselves by trying to frustrate us by inserting random messages into the system.

 

[GGizmo]

Hah... I thought all the fun ladies were on ICQ. Dated 2 girls from random chat who were great!!

Damn it. Back then all the girls online were intelligent as they had to figure out how to get online and log on to this stuff. Not a duck face in sight.. :/

I also used ICQ years ago and hit the random chat button! I eventually got engaged to an American woman.. was together for 5 years, but distance was the killer.

I used to help run some of the 'adult' channels on irc back in the day, and when I first joined the channel it was nearly entirely run by women. It always amazed me how many (mainly American and Canadian) women were on there, considering in those days women and computers was a rare combo.

Sadly over time I think facebook killed off the female population on irc, and maybe the social side of irc itself.

Each year there used to be a new influx of people join the channels. But when facebook came out we never got the new people, and eventually the current people started drifting away.

 

[Cromulent]

I use IRC all the time. I use it so often I pay for IRC Cloud which I find useful as I can read IRC on my desktop computer and my mobile phone and never disconnect from the servers. Mainly use Freenode, OFTC and Snoonet. I do use Discord as well which is a bit more modern, but there are just so many useful communities on IRC that haven't moved on so I'll continue using it for the foreseeable future.

 

[Kainz]

Been using it daily since '97. Most of my gaming old school gaming buddies and I have moved onto our Whatsapp/Telegram group, but we still have our channel on Quakenet #id. Can't beat irc for organising gaming events at the end of the day!

/me members the day when those 'free' X-Stream/RedHotAnt and those 1hr ISP's existed. Everyone swapping account details like crazy just to be online for an hour lol

 

[Semple]

I remember using it in my teens alongside various games i'd played. Can't say i've used it at all since instant-messaging type services came out.