IRC - Back in the 90s
by admin on Feb.22, 2008, under Uncategorized
So I have been on the Internet for quite sometime. Back in the early 90s I was a chatter on the Internet. I used a chat room service called mIRC most of the time. I had a 28.8 Kbps modem and dialed up to the Internet. I then chatted hours on end with people across the country and world. It really isn’t a big deal these days but back then it wasn’t nearly that common.
I really got a lot of my geeky roots back then, setting up chat rooms with bots to monitor and enforce it. Running DOS attacks against people you didn’t like, was pretty easy to drop someone’s connection to the IRC service and if you could get it right you could disconnect their modem connection too.
You would meet people in large public chat rooms and I made a lot of long term friends that we would all come online at the same time everyday to talk for hours.
I haven’t used IRC in years, typically now I use one-on-one programs like ICQ or MSN.
I hadn’t even thought about it in years until earlier this year I got contacted by and old friend from IRC. She found me on Myspace, then just in the past couple of days another friend from ages ago contacted me on Facebook. It is crazy that after all these years people are looking up and finding long lost friends using social networking sites.
For those of you who maybe talked to me back in the day this is Superboy signing off.
Anyone else have memories of the Internet back in the early 90s?
