Re:Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely
by digi_owl on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:09PM
(#17682704)
IRC in particular was great for this, as it was rooms not P2P, and quite often one could find quite local rooms. ICQ and IM in general ruined that, IMO, as it was more invite based.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely
by StillBored on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:43PM
(#17682986)
You forget that IRC has person to person messaging too. It was pretty easy to start a side conversation with people on IRC that wasn't public.