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      • +1

        Pkzip!

  • +2

    That's my introduction to the Internet in mid 90s and where I met my wife of 19 years.
    /me slaps OzBargain around a bit with a large trout

  • +6

    Not to be like one of those people, if you know what I mean, but I honestly think people were more open and friendly and interested in being part of the new world of social connection by way of the internet, compared to how people and the internet have generally affected people today. (I don't know why that is, I'm not a technologist / psychologist)

    Just an observation.

    Really, the 90s and early 2000s were the best days of my life, and I have the household adoption of the internet before smartphones to thank for that. (archaic version)

    • +1

      Ehhhhh it's pretty much truth though.

      The early adopters are always those seeking new experiences or pioneers.
      They tend to be more open-minded and accepting.

      It's the same story with how Digg evolved and now Reddit. Early days of Digg was just IT pros and geeks, then came more regular folk and the site shifted a bit towards the norm, then came muppets and trolls and the general cross section of society…

      And it's stopped being a neat clubhouse and just became a online shopping mall.

      Whereas IRC still maintains a pretty technical overhead for end users.
      It's a bit exclusive by being a bit exclusionary.

      It's kind of like how Counter-strike was in the WON days versus Steam.

      • +1

        I feel because it took some knowledge and effort to be on there, you automatically had a filter

        After dozens of virus removals on friend's and family's computers, I wanted people with computers to be treated like drivers

        Study and get a licence to use this thing!

        Don't park within 200m of 'awewomescreensavers.exe'!

    • +1

      it comes down to empathy.
      people just wanted to help and share discoveries.

      it was a time of magic, to be able to connect with someone,
      and it was heavy on text and less on image.

      so, it was more of a connection of minds…rather than bodies.

      however, there was very little trust and you could not transfer money, buy things online, etc… until at least Paypal came along.

    • A couple of friends and I used to use IRC over 20 years ago, from 13 years old. We hung out in chatrooms, most had people of various ages. They were relatively small so we all kind of knew each other. They used to look out for us a bit. Some of them used to send us to inappropriate sites because it was funny (then we'd do the same to each other), nothing harmful. If I ever ended up somewhere like #Melbourne on Austnet it was just constant spam of "asl?" So I mostly avoided it, but I met a couple of people there. The other thing was if you weren't feeling up to chatting in the chatrooms you could just chat to who you wanted without joining. It was easier having real conversations with people through text than IRL. Having adults I trusted that I could talk through problems with also helped. It was only a couple of hours after school and not every day so it didn't take over other social interactions. I spoke to some people on the phone and met some of them, a friend and I always went together with one of our parents.

  • +6

    There was actually a miniseries created which revolved around the usage of IRC and warez trafficking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)

    Watched it earlier this year for nostalgia.
    Being a courier in the warez scene was a full time job. FXPing after a latest movie release, using capture cards to cap the latest tv shows to build up your cred and get access to the bigger private ftp sites. This was before it was made available to the masses in form of p2p sharing.

    Then there was MP3/WMA Land a bunch of local uni students that got busted back in 2002 for distributing and pirating the latest singles and albums from the music industry. They had their places raided for simply ripping the latest cds and putting them up for download.

    Australia's first Internet music piracy case.
    Remember one afternoon coming back from school, looking forward to catch up with the team on their IRC channel. Silence… little did I know they were under AFP monitoring.

    • +2

      Haha I remember the scene

      I remember people were linking it to a top site bust
      Seemed to happen close together.

      I was pretty in to that series for that reason despite how bad it was.

      The uni dudes were using the servers yeah? I didn't have ties to that but I do remember us having to shut down our back door at uts or Sydney

      • +1

        I was in my first year at UTS. I don’t think the UTS edu boxes were used as a distro. It was more common with US unis were back then had vastly more superior connections (upstream) making them a better option.

        They were mostly unsecured Windows 2000 machines with RDP enabled with a easy password or no password at all.
        I do remember the backdoor in one of the IT buildings at UTS close after the raids. I’m pretty sure it was the newly built building 11 which featured some pretty cutting edge building architecture at the time with the over use of glass.

        In terms of where all the pirated content was hosted for the site — Tripod, geocities, angelfire and the other Plethora of free hosting options. The files were ‘Camouflaged’ though, yes an actual application that changes not only the extension of the file but also the headers to fool the hosting providers.

    • +1

      racing was so fun to watch

      • +1

        Racing and then finding out the release was NUKED fun times. Remember just before leaving the scene auto fxping became increasingly popular. Didn’t get the same thrill as fxping a 0 sec movie TS to 100’s of top sites at once.

        Then DVB became available on FTA in the early 2000’s remember waking up early to capture some music videos on RAGE for release or if a scheduled recording failed, ruining many weekends.

        Now it’s all available to the masses with little effort.
        It always is more rewarding to achieve something when there’s a certain degree of effort or skill involved.

  • +7

    Met my partner using mIRC in 1997. Still together :D

    • +4

      Awesome. I can go one better, I met mine on ytalk in 1994. Basically an intra campus UNIX host running the early versions of pine (email), ytalk (chat), finger (whois) etc through the Born Again SHell. Wow, talk about high tech.

      • +2

        that brings back memories,… " 'fingering' someone on the server " … haha

      • +2

        You mean GNU BASH?

  • Wow.. Who on earth still on IRX? What about ICQ then?

    • There are still a lot of big communities on irc if you could believe. There's a large presence of piracy for Ebooks.

  • hexchat

  • I must be the oldest one here. My first modem was 110 baud.

    • Do you still remember the first thing you did?

      • +4

        I logged on to AARNET and looked in the Asahi company computer in Japan.

    • You beat me. I was 4800 baud for a few weeks then upgraded to 9600, bulletin boards were all the rage (ISCABBS etc).

    • Oh! That's bad! I had a high-speed 56K connection… :)

      • +1

        It was fast! For the time anyway lol. Then went 14.4, 33.6, 56k and finally got off dialup and onto 512k ADSL. I have a soft spot for dialup, dot matrix, Win 3.11, Netscape, Altavista and Duke Nukem!

        • +2

          Altavista was the bomb when it comes to search engines.

  • You know it's 2020 when you have to pay for mIRC…

  • +1

    I just fired up my old Amiga IRC client, which I haven't used since 1999. It still works as long as the server names are updated. But, all the rooms I used to visit are either dead or dead quiet. I miss those late night chats and laugh.

  • +1

    Better not start having to pay for winrar!

    • +1

      Somebody post a WinRAR deal!

  • +2

    /slap Khaled Mardam Bey around with a large trout

    • *nick crashes everyone and ops bots to steal them.

  • don't we have opensource IRC chat client?
    like this one:
    https://hexchat.github.io/

  • +5

    Gonna go build my geocities webpage now.

    I'm loving the resurgence by the way. We had ACDSEE, now IRC. We need a deal on WinRAR next.

    • I just used winrar last night?

      Is it not used in polite society anymore?

      I did my tafe manual on winrar instead of zip!

      • +2

        its all about 7zip now.

        • Oh yeah
          I've used it a few times

          I just like my winrar :)

  • +2

    That's nostalgia. So what about the mIRC scripts (Avalanche, Ninja, T7DS)?

    I've just found this: https://mircscripts.net/?page=scripts and https://alexscript.webs.com/screenshots

    The creator of Korona (January 2019?) should be investigated. He/she might have seen the future (our present).

  • +1

    Those were the days. Young and free… ASL, pic and meet up lol

    • You don't have meet up. You have eyeball.

      • +3

        He definitely had meat up.

  • +2

    Does anyone remember using mIRC scripts? Sounds, colorful confetti ASCII art etc

    • Used them all that time I was chatting in mIRC.

  • +2

    How about paying for a shell account to run a bnc (bouncer) so your nick would be online 24/7 in the days of dialup. Plus you could select your own vhost to not only hide your real IP but display a custom address in the whois search to look even cooler.

    • +1

      I used the university's servers instead lol. T3 always up connection and almost immune to ICMP floods (DDOS attacks) etc. Worked well for ages, but got busted when one of our fellow channel admins used my eggdrop BOTS to try and ICMP flood a T3 connected BOT on another channel and the university came looking for the account that was responsible for their all time record amount of upload traffic and accompanying fees, oops.

  • Almost forgot about mIRC. Wasn't this free?

  • The true golden days were blueboxing. Rip Onkel DittMeyer

  • +3

    This post has brought out all the ol' skoolers and the nostalgia hit hard,
    when I saw AT modem strings and iRC FServ commands …. :'-)

    What an awesome decade, 1990 - 1999 , and getting into all this.

  • +3

    Soon we'll be paying for the anarchist cookbook.

  • +2

    Back in the old days just go to #serialz and no need to pay

  • Is this better than ICQ?

    • +1

      its not an either or. Plenty had both.

  • +1

    Just bought it, if you use your ABN you don't get charged GST. #winning

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