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The only thing I miss from the 90s-00s was the fun we had on IRC. And that was mostly due to our carelessness and youth, so I think I'm good in this future.

The funny thing is I'm still on IRC, with about the same size channel, but everyone is "new" and we're all old. I don't have any contact with the peeps from IRC back then.

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I was a big user of IRC in the past, owned some channels that had thousands of daily messages, IRC may be mostly gone, but the experience and vibe is still as alive as ever on other IM apps.

They all essentially work the same as IRC did but with modern bells and mobile support.

It is not the same. For me the magic of IRC was to not be online all time. People needed to actively connect and join the channels every day

You still can use it that way. I don't read the backlogs of large chats. I just talk to the people actively there in the moment. It's pretty much the same as it was but you don't get the spam of "Hey, anyone online?" on low activity groups like you used to.

What IRC network(s) do you like nowadays?

I'm on a private one with local friends that I met through hacker spaces.

The rest like indymedia, libera, oftc are mostly to stay updated on tech and ask questions about tech.

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