In a contrarian mood today.
Let’s scrap signal, matrix, xmpp. IRC is the past and IRC is the future. LONG LIVE IRC!
Ok how do I feckin use irc…?
@amin is it written in rust? I want my irc chats to be memory safe.
@amin @spaceraser then use sirc (in its mirsirc variant), it’s written in native Perl and therefore memory-safe.
Mmm, no, it's in C. It's been around since 1999, over a decade before Rust had blessed the world with memory safety, which of course did not exist until that point.
@amin @spaceraser correct, ADA was definetly not yet invented back then 
@amin @spaceraser @kabel42 the programming language is spelt "Ada", fwiw
I said, specifically, IRCv3. Older versions of IRC are pretty old.
The only thing that springs to mind which is more old than the first version of IRC are things like 'talk', which doesn't work with more than two users and which, I believe, requires that both users have an account on the same host.
Also there's the collaborative work they did in the mother of all demos, but hey
@mirabilos @amin @spaceraser I thought it was stylized as "ADA", but it seems I remembered wrong :(
@spaceraser @amin @kabel42 nah, it’s because they named it after the woman
(For that you'd need a 1968-era SDS940 computer, but hey you'd get analog video conferencing. Old enough?)
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@spaceraser @wouter @miodvallat it’s basically IRC for OpenBSD committers but you can only be in one channel, and kick is called boot
@wouter @spaceraser no, talk worked between different hosts. I used it a lot back in the day, even to chat with my brother in California while I was in Michigan.
@wouter @spaceraser @mirabilos and rwall, for sending alerts to other hosts.
Right. I remember using it with my business partner in 2003, I think? Ages after it made sense, of course. But we always had an account on the same system, so I just misremembered 🙂
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@mirabilos @spaceraser @wouter According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Citizen%27s_Band, IRC predates ICB.
This was just after we founded our company and it was just fun to do
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