Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
by ken on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:14PM
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This is just one logging service, not any actual IRC servers. So today's news is not necessarily a huge deal.
IRC as a system, though, is massively important. I'd say it's like the Twitter of the first half (so far) of the internet. When the (first) Gulf War began, the first reports were via IRC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7990835
IRC as a system, though, is massively important. I'd say it's like the Twitter of the first half (so far) of the internet. When the (first) Gulf War began, the first reports were via IRC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7990835