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…?

@spaceraser

With irssi of course!

@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.

@spaceraser

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

@wouter rats. What’s older than IRC?

@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

@spaceraser @wouter is ICB older? @miodvallat

@wouter @spaceraser wall ;) we used it to talk

@spaceraser @wouter @miodvallat it’s basically IRC for OpenBSD committers but you can only be in one channel, and kick is called boot

@wouter I’ve decided to write letters instead.

@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.

@mirabilos @spaceraser @wouter According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Citizen%27s_Band, IRC predates ICB.

@miodvallat @spaceraser @wouter hmmm, why then?