Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down?

Re:Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down? by martindale on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @08:13AM (#7017082)

IRC is just a protocol, like HTTP.

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Re:Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down? by pyre on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @08:26AM (#7017137)

... and protocols never truly die? Like Gopher?

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Re:Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down? by twic on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:40PM (#7019369)

What? Gopher isn't dead, buddy. There are over 160 servers.

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Re:Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down? by pyre on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:34PM (#7019717)

Forgive me if I don't hold my breath waiting for Gopher to come back in-style though. ;-)

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Re:Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down? by brianpgordon on Thursday January 09, 2014 @08:26PM (#7034474)

One of them serving legitimate files, even!

(Only on waning gibbous moons.)

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Re:Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down? by riffraff on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @09:13AM (#7017347)

I still go to freenode, but being a protocol doesn't mean it can't die, i.e. gopher is practically dead.

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Re:Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down? by cema on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @08:23AM (#7017125)

So is gopher.

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