"IRC (Internet Relay Chat) has been around since 1988, which makes it ancient in Internet terms. And although it’s still used by hundreds of thousands of users around the world, IRC has seen a dramatic downturn in usage.We have talked to the creator of IRC, and others, about why the once so widely used technology has seemingly fallen out of favor with so many users."I remember running into that blog post more than 10 years ago. IRC is still around. There's people that prefer it over things like Discord. After my foray into Discord for the past 6 months and some things I learned about it I dont blame them. Even though I met some good people, Discord as a company is sinister. Also a lot of the communities on Discord are toxic. It's even worse than a lot of IRC channels and some IRC channels can be pretty toxic because a lot of networks have lax rules. IRC is still around.
I actually started getting into IRC around the time this blog post was made because it was the place to be to talk about Linux related stuff. Back in the 2000s i was very recluse and wasnt interested in it even though that was IRC's hey day. Far as I know I didnt talk to much of anyone even online back in the 2000s.
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