Just one time I want someone to write a love letter to some old technology and for it to just be an actual love letter and just like some psycho who is literally in love with some protocol and they’re like talking about how hot the protocol is and how they wish they could just fuck it. Is that too much to ask?
A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat
Submitted 3 weeks ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/08/a-love-letter-to-internet-relay-chat/
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MTK@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Serial Experiments Lain, layer:10 LOVE
As with every episode I’ve seen so far, it’s a confusing avant-garde mess, but with cassette-cyberpunk aesthetics (the best kind of cyberpunk aesthetics) so I guess that’s okay.
But that episode in particular is weird people confessing psycho love for a protocol.
To be fair I’m less weirded out by falling for a concept and much more weirded out by the fact this protocol looks like and thinks she is an 11yo girl, and these adult creepy idiots are confessing their love to her. Seriously, what the fuck Japan?
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
this protocol looks like and thinks she is an 11yo girl
It’s also kind of an all-powerful god though.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
My dearest Tokenring,
BussyGyatt@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
be the change
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m looking forward to IRC v3. It will bring modern chat features like threads and emoji reactions, and it might be time for a resurgence in its popularity
ggiesen@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Other than backwards compatibility with previous IRC clients, is there anything IRCv3 brings that something like Matrix doesn’t do?
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Matrix has a name for being a cumbersome protocol, which is partly true (try to join a room on a big server like
matrix.org, but alsokde.organdmozilla.org), but there are now lightweight servers such as Dendrite and Continuwuity.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Whoa… I just found out about this
JunglisticFunkateer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Will it require a user to set up a bouncer for chat history etc, or will it work seamlessly?
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Not sure if that project will go anywhere, it doesn’t seem like it from the GitHub. Though from the people I’ve talked to, they like IRC because it’s simple without things like reactions and etc.
piefood@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
I <3 IRC
I still run my own server. My friends and I hang out and play with chat bots and send memes and comics back and forth. It's a pretty chill place to hang out, and it's super easy to self-host.
Go take back the web that was taken from you.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Can I join?
piefood@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
Sorry no :(
It's an "IRL" friend only thing, and I don't want to associate this account with my real name (My IRC instance has my name tied to it)
But I'd be happy to help you get connected to one of the public servers if you need! :)
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
IRC rules! I just made a new channel to discuss degoogling – come by and say hi! web.libera.chat/##degoogle
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
IRC is still awesome and I am have come back to it every time whatever new platform we try becomes shitty. I think I’ll just stay put this time.
philosloppy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
IRC continues to demonstrate the superiority of protocols over platforms. Unfortunately, the modern internet is entirely dominated by centralized platforms and that doesn’t seem to be changing anytime soon.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I still follow my early IRC friends on social media. It feels like most of them went on to be successful in the tech world. That wasn’t my path tho.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shit provided me a social life in my teens. I still think of those guys sometimes.
glowie@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Isn’t this jack Dorsey’s bullshit?
glowie@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
The bitchat part is, yup
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m still using IRC but the population there was reduced significantly when discord got popular. it’s unfortunate
Lexam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Back in the day I was in the IRC book piracy scene. “Ebooks” weren’t out yet. So someone would scan a book page by page. Then they would hand it off for editing basically. First revision was the straight OCR (Optical Character Reader), then usually someone would do a pass through to take out any weird characters and what not. That second revision would then be handed off to someone like myself who would read the actual book and correct any typos the OCR created. I read books on a Palm Pilot.
einlander@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reminds me of the scanslation scene. Was a cleaner/redrawer.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Image
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Thank you for your service
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Palm pilot. You an OG. I miss my little palm.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I just heard someone on a podcast calling Palm Pilots shitty porto-e-readers the other day.
laranis@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Glorious.
Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I downloaded .txt books and read on my DS :D nostalgic but do not want to relive the experience