Reminder: There's an EEVBlog IRC channel - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 22, 2014, 10:51:42 pm
content: With all the offtopic stuff causing the moderators a bit of pain i thought i'd remind people of the EEVblog IRC channel. A place where you can chat about offtopic stuff as well as electronics.There's really only ~13 people in there at present, not really enough to have a good channel. But with the forum usage a lot more than it used to be maybe we can get the IRC channel a bit more active.You will either need to install an IRC app like mirc or use a web based client.The server is Afternet (irc.afternet.org)The channel is #eevblog

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 22, 2014, 10:57:27 pm
content: Perhaps if a certain unnamed moderator starts randomly deleting threads and banning users, it will drive up the IRC channel usage?I live to serve.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 22, 2014, 10:58:18 pm
content: One person already joined before i finished correcting the spelling mistakes in the post

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 22, 2014, 11:01:19 pm
content: Haven't used IRC in years, I must re-learn how to do it so I can see what people are complaining about. I suspect it will be me

author: MatCat
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 23, 2014, 01:21:55 am
content: Been a while since I actively hung out on IRC, think I will lurk from time to time.

author: marshallh
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 23, 2014, 04:39:35 am
content: Joined, watch out for my daily spamming of naked pcbs

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 23, 2014, 07:04:10 am
content: The chat bar could always be reintroduced for above X posts users / above X months users and supporters, that would drive up activity a large amount, and was a nice feature for me while it was alive (and not being spammed)

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 23, 2014, 08:28:56 pm
content: IRC... early 90s flash back...It still exists! Do you need a vac app for your phone to access it or can someone recommend good Android software?

author: Steffen
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2014, 03:46:50 pm
content: I can recommend [/url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.yaaic]YAAIC for Android.

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 12:47:34 am
content: mmm old school chat. How many people still remember their ICQ number? Mine only has 7 digits. My slashdot ID number is huge though.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 12:55:23 am
content: We're up to 24 active people in the channel nowQuote from: Smokey on January 25, 2014, 12:47:34 amI still know mine, its 8 digit.

author: blackjudas
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 02:42:27 am
content: Why not freenode? Just curious as afternet seems to be a dying network...?

author: ampdoctor
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 03:02:00 am
content: Quote from: Smokey on January 25, 2014, 12:47:34 amN00bs! Mine's 5 digits, and I have a few friends with 3 digits. One guy I used to know had a 2 digit. having said that I don't think I've used icq in a decade so it's probably not even valid anymore.And here's a real blast from the past....the Cornell University live video reflectors using 28.8 phone modems. Now THAT'S oldschool

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 03:58:08 am
content: You youngsters, I used to chat at 300baud on my local Fidonet BBS

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 04:09:07 am
content: Quote from: GeoffS on January 22, 2014, 10:57:27 pmStarts?

author: MatCat
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 05:06:27 am
content: My first encounter with the connected world was 2400 baud connecting to local BBS systems. The biggest one in the area I was on started as a small dial up company with a 10 node BBS, the popularity caused them to quickly grow to 500 nodes and where one of the biggest dial up providers in the area.A part of me really misses those days, I think it was the best spot in the concept of internet, as your connected world was pretty much connected locally so you knew most everyone, and it really drove a new social dynamic to the nerds. I was young in those days, 10 to 12ish years old, good times rofl. It didn't take long for the internet as we know it today to creep in and take over. I remember when AOL was popular, and can remember many a sleepless nights downloading things from the AOL file servers rofl.I have been on IRC nearly as long (I am 31 now), even used the same nick since then. I Don't remember what my ICQ number was but I do know it was less then 6 digits, probably 5 or 6. All if it always brings me back to a lot of memories, I have made computers my core life focus since I was about 8, so there are a lot of memories hehe.

author: kizzap
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 09:48:34 pm
content: So... seems like the server decided to crash just a little bit

author: Rory
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 12:51:26 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on January 25, 2014, 03:58:08 amI ran a Fidonet node for a couple of years. Went bigtime when I got the Courier HST 14.4 directly from USR, when you had to know someone to to get one. BBS ran on a 286 with a 5MB RLL drive! Had about a dozen users.

author: Maxlor
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 02:13:15 pm
content: Quote from: Rory on January 26, 2014, 12:51:26 amQuote from: Rory on January 26, 2014, 12:51:26 amI guess people really had a different sense of scale back then?

author: ivan747
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 02:56:12 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on January 25, 2014, 03:58:08 amI can flick a switch faster than that, in ascii.

author: nihilism
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 04:06:10 pm
content: Funny how times change, I too remember being a minority internet user in my early teens, now i think it would be a struggle to find someone in most countries that hasn't used the internet.Telstra must have sure had a shock in the 90's when everyone started tying up lines for hours for the cost of a local call.

author: kc9qvl
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 05:12:22 pm
content: Here's a firefox irc plugin: Chatzillahttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chatzilla/?src=searchhttp://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/and an easy link to start it:irc://irc.afternet.org/#eevblog

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 05:19:37 pm
content: I looked and there was a default IRC client on Ubuntu, XChat. Seems to be doing what it is required to do.

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 05:22:17 pm
content: There is a default Afternet owned web chat, works flawless to me ->https://www.afternet.org/qwebirc

author: Rory
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 06:34:25 pm
content: Quote from: Maxlor on January 26, 2014, 02:13:15 pmThat board got the overflow from the more established boards. Many had only one POTS line so there were a lot of busy signals. Users could set up dialing lists so that if one board was busy the terminal would call the next number on the list. Each board carried most of the same popular groups and ones the users would request, and we got our feed from our mother node who was willing to spend the money on long distance charges. Users were 300 or 1200 baud for the most part, early adopters at 2400 so 14.4kbps was the cool thing at the time.I also ran an HF to VHF radio packet gateway that acted as the prime backup to a cross-state backbone as well as handling local and distant users. That one was constantly busy forwarding ARRL bulletins and message traffic.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 07:46:36 pm
content: Quote from: GeoffS on January 22, 2014, 10:57:27 pmI hate all the silly / off-topic non electronic related threads; if I was an admin I'd create a specific off-topic category - then every month just empty it - with some of the users too! ;-)

author: mcinque
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 10:31:23 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on January 25, 2014, 03:58:08 amDo you still remember "bluewave" for the fidonet messaging system!?Good old days...

author: TheAmmoniacal
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 26, 2016, 06:58:22 am
content: And it has only grown since..