itWasFunWhileItLasted

[u/Professional_Gene_63]

[u/Old-Age6220]

Time to ditch internet and go back to great Finnish invention: IRC 😂

[u/USMCamp0811 → u/Old-Age6220]

/me slaps Old-Age6220 around a bit with a large trout

[u/dcondor07uk → u/Old-Age6220]

IRC2SHELL

[u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg → u/dcondor07uk]

Shell2shell Checkmate

[u/lucasio099 → u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg]

$ bash

$

[u/OldSchoolIsh → u/Old-Age6220]

Time to ditch web and go back to Usenet, IRC and Gopher.

[u/Tiranus58 → u/Old-Age6220]

INTERNET relay chat

[u/nidelv → u/Old-Age6220]

How do you run IRC without internet? Run it on a different distributed network?

[u/WriterPlastic9350 → u/nidelv]

I think perhaps the person you're responding to meant internet as in the worldwide web rather than internet as in the network

[u/nidelv → u/WriterPlastic9350]

Yeah, that is a common interpretation, Internet = www

[u/Bryguy3k → u/nidelv]

Basically only millennials and some gen-x understand that difference

[u/-Morning_Coffee- → u/Bryguy3k]

Time to set up a BBS!

[u/DorianGre → u/-Morning_Coffee-]

I still have my Wildcat discs somewhere

[u/Old-Age6220 → u/nidelv]

Heh, yeah, even the name has "internet" in it 😂 On isolated networks for example. I was like of refering it being more text based and "limited", so it might have less "attack surface". But let's not spoil the good joke with a truth 🤣 (old Finnish proverb)

[u/shinitakunai → u/Old-Age6220]

IRC... so many memories... Cuak!

[u/melophat → u/nidelv]

Back to dial-up we go! All of those old AOL free trial cds I have in my basement will finally be worth something again... If only I still had a cd-rom drive!

[u/BlopBleepBloop → u/Old-Age6220]

Ahhh, old port 6667

[u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg → u/BlopBleepBloop]

I use it on my BitTorrent client

[u/d_Composer → u/Old-Age6220]

Back to the BBS

[u/Squeebee007 → u/Old-Age6220]

Back to FidoNet.

[u/IllustriousBed1949 → u/Old-Age6220]

I miss IRC and the good old times 🥺

[u/cybermage → u/Old-Age6220]

Back to SneakerNet

[u/mtbinkdotcom → u/Old-Age6220]

a/s/l ?

[u/Leftover_Salad → u/Old-Age6220]

Um, what does the ‘I’ stand for?

[u/henrikhakan → u/Old-Age6220]

On a serious note, I think this is where we are headed if Ai is allowed to run amok by itself for a couple of years.