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CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

A good article, but as a millennial, I was completely unprepared for the 2 psychic damage I took from this sentence:

Even based boomerware like IRC has to play second fiddle to them.

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skribe@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
GenX. I used IRC back in the early 90s, but by the mid-90s I’d moved on. Probably to ICQ. I can’t recall.

Then, in the mid-noughties my millennial work colleagues were going crazy for Mirc. I was shocked to discover it was just IRC with a pretty face but all the same issues that caused me to leave it 10 years before.

And it’s still going. Although, no longer flavour of the month.

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- biotin7@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What is ICQ ?
  
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  - krimson@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Heh. Thanks for making me feel old 😂
    
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  - skribe@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ
    
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