when the internat was all about screen namesĪnd people knew better than sharing their real name, I only stopped doing that because the various services kept changing their APIs and making it more difficult for bitlbee to keep up. It's much, much easier to read a Twitter feed when it's in chronological order rather than the top-posted feed you get in the app. I also used to use a combination of a VPS, irssi, bitlbee and screen to send all my social media to one interface, which I could connect to from anywhere. It wasn't very good and I did it by referring to the RFCs and sniffing packets to and from my regular client. I used IRC in the 90s, but in the early 2000s I wrote an IRC client plugin for another chat system, which got used by - I think - two other services. The main differences are that Slack is proprietary, relies on one company and isn't going to be around in 20 years :P I use Slack at work, which I don't see as particularly different (there's even a Slack-IRC gateway which is pretty transparent). Mainly freenode, with channels like #drupal-support who are really very good for quick answers to Drupal questions (and Drupal is definitely the sort of thing that makes you have a lot of questions).īecause I'm there, I'll also have other channels open, like general chats, though I mostly idle.
I do still use IRC a bit for development. I don't check it often, usually just when I need something specific. Nowadays I use weechat which I leave going in a tmux session. IRC provided immediate feedback from respected knowledgeable mentors, whereas we also had forums which served as the place to document our progress.Īlso on a more personal note, I've been going back through all of my ZIP file archives (because who had source control back then that WASNT just a collection of ZIP files!?) and have been uploading as much as possible to GitHub, along with chronological notes on my personal web site: Like comment: Like comment: 8 likes Hell, half the internet was still Geocities, Angelfire, and AOL keywords! Back then, things were significantly simpler, because we didn't have the resources to build these massive web communities. There are so many tools nowadays though, but development and communication, that it is honestly overwhelming and sometimes hard to jump into new things.
As a teen in the late 90's and early 2000's, their devs taught me C++ absolutely for free with no expectation of contributions back through their IRC channels. Yeah, they hosted some IRC channels for various aspects of things they worked on.
Ya'll ever remember or ever heard of Winamp way way WAY back in the day!?
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