A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat

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• Lexam@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Glorious.

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  • einlander@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Reminds me of the scanslation scene. Was a cleaner/redrawer.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • tehn00bi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Palm pilot. You an OG. I miss my little palm.

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  • Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you for your service

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just heard someone on a podcast calling Palm Pilots shitty porto-e-readers the other day.

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• piefood@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Can I join?

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• ZephyrXero@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • ggiesen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

    Other than backwards compatibility with previous IRC clients, is there anything IRCv3 brings that something like Matrix doesn’t do?

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• MTK@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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?

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  • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My dearest Tokenring,

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  • BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    be the change

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• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• glowie@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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