Comment on The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 9 months agoIRC wasn’t federated though, but you could indeed connect to multiple servers with the same client.
Comment on The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 9 months agoIRC wasn’t federated though, but you could indeed connect to multiple servers with the same client.
Vqhm@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean
There were networks such as: EFnet Undernet Quakenet DALnet
different servers in different regions did network together.
There was a different word for ‘defederation’ back then: net split en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsplit
And it was usually from a networking issue.
I’m still salty that an IRCOP from a (now defunct) Canadian server used a net split as an attack: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC_takeover
to steal a # channel from my friends and make it private long enough to sort out the bot auto bans. We appealed, but because they were an IRCOP, the other IRCOPs from the federated servers were just like, “whatever, pound sand users, go run a server if you want to control stuff like us.”
Anyway, IRC was a connection of various servers run by various people/corporations/universities etc.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Oh true, I forgot about that. I remember Freenode running multiple servers and them always netsplitting. Good times :)