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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by sneakernets on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:55PM (#18727197)
Are you sure that wasn't just AIM? AIM couldn't be port blocked like IRC. Most all schools had already blocked those ports.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by kalleboo on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:57PM (#18731317)
It was definitely IRC. As boys who had a prerogative to tease girls, we installed NetNanny to block launching mIRC (and then the trial period expired and the school computers got infested with registration reminders...). AIM had zero mindshare in Europe at the time, it was all ICQ and later MSN.

Our school had nothing blocked, and the computers weren't locked down at all.

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