I miss the idea of IRC.
IRC is a technology that gives us a decentralized networks of chat servers, allowing people to meet like-minded strangers. It used to be (maybe) the most popular way to chat online before ICQ and Skype changed everything. I spent years of my life there as a teenager and young adult.
Unlike email, IRC didn’t age well. The whole thing started falling apart due to limitations of how big channels could be while remaining usable. Also, spam, hacks, profanity, botnets, and ToS violations invaded. IRC is still alive but with a low number of daily active users.
We now have Discord and Slack but they suffer one little flaw. They’re for-profit companies.
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IRC left some significant legacy. From hashtags to instant messaging and the modern Slack-like tools, it originates from the Internet’s dark age – 1988. However, looking back, I can’t see a way to make IRC compliant with the needs of the modern web.
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