For me, I started out with AOL then eventually I found out about IRC (forgot how I found out but somehow I transited from AOL to IRC) and used it since. Had AOL because it was "pre-Fakebook" and my IRL friends were on it and not on IRC. lol
I'm sure you've done way more than I have as I was still "wet-behind-the-ear" with IRC, despite learning my way around it with IRC commands and all. I almost never know which channel to go in so I just find one of the randos from the list then enter. Boring? leave. Weird? leave. I almost never find a channel I can stay for a long time. I was also trying out different servers like DalNet, EFnet, Freenode, ircnet (I think this one is the default one cuz I used mIRC and it was almost always trying to connect me to ircnet?) and some more I forgot... wow. Brings back memories and maybe I'll give it another try.
For me, the Internet back then was glorious and I was learning a shit ton of stuff until they bottled it down in the mid 2000's and on.
Yeah, I left IRC in 2000. Long story. I've only been back once for like just a few hours looking for an old friend. Its not like it used to be. When I was there in the late 90s EFnet was a literal war zone. It was the wild wild west. IRC on any network now is nothing like EFnet used to be. You can't take over channels. Unlike you I had places I called home. 90% of my friends were online. I met my wife(now X) on IRC.
When I left IRC I started playing MMOs. Asherons Call, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, then EVE Online. I quit all of it because it was just taking up too much time.
For me, I started out with AOL then eventually I found out about IRC (forgot how I found out but somehow I transited from AOL to IRC) and used it since. Had AOL because it was "pre-Fakebook" and my IRL friends were on it and not on IRC. lol
I'm sure you've done way more than I have as I was still "wet-behind-the-ear" with IRC, despite learning my way around it with IRC commands and all. I almost never know which channel to go in so I just find one of the randos from the list then enter. Boring? leave. Weird? leave. I almost never find a channel I can stay for a long time. I was also trying out different servers like DalNet, EFnet, Freenode, ircnet (I think this one is the default one cuz I used mIRC and it was almost always trying to connect me to ircnet?) and some more I forgot... wow. Brings back memories and maybe I'll give it another try.
For me, the Internet back then was glorious and I was learning a shit ton of stuff until they bottled it down in the mid 2000's and on.
Yeah, I left IRC in 2000. Long story. I've only been back once for like just a few hours looking for an old friend. Its not like it used to be. When I was there in the late 90s EFnet was a literal war zone. It was the wild wild west. IRC on any network now is nothing like EFnet used to be. You can't take over channels. Unlike you I had places I called home. 90% of my friends were online. I met my wife(now X) on IRC.
When I left IRC I started playing MMOs. Asherons Call, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, then EVE Online. I quit all of it because it was just taking up too much time.