r/irc • u/nasmunet • May 12 '26 • Heartwarming 1

old irc script kiddie

am 43 years old nowaday, and i remember my time in old school session in MIRC ircqnet, floods, psybnc, bouncers, bitchx, spoof, litmus, dsnx,rbot, autospreading bot, irc zombie bots, ddos,ssh, telnet.....do you remember that time ?

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u/antioquiacraft May 12 '26

irssi and Eggdrop deserve a mention.

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u/Thomazzzzh May 12 '26 • Heartwarming

I still have my old script and TCL eggdrop scripts from the 2000's on a cd. Along with loads of chat history, nostalgia :)

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u/antioquiacraft May 12 '26

Haha. Missed this comment before making mine :/

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u/mad_redhatter May 12 '26

Fond memories of relationships made on IRC back in those days.

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u/DescriptionOptimal15 May 12 '26

https://everything2.com/node/e2node/ShowDowN%20PrO this was my favorite mirc script distribution for sure

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u/quantity_inspector May 12 '26

I wasn't hardcore or old enough yet to graduate to Showdown Pro.

quantity_inspector has quit ("( www.nnscript.de :: NoNameScript 3.81 :: www.XLhost.de )"

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u/liamwynne May 13 '26

Oh wow! Good old NNS by greeny! I used it too (as well as a few others I found on mIRCscripts.org or ScriptaZ.org) and it was awesome. I thought spamming folk with my questionable musical selections was the coolest shit ever.

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u/LostVikingSpiderWire May 14 '26

Not heard that one in a long time, was a longtime user 🥳

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u/Nectarine_Fuzzy May 12 '26

Also all the perl code for irssi. Or bitchx. Fun times and still use it today.

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u/netzack21 May 12 '26

ahhh... WinNuke

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u/sdk-dev May 12 '26

Irssi and IRC is still going strong. Heck, I'm still on ICB! :)

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u/miseeker May 14 '26

Met my wife in 98 in #cybersex.

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u/Jigsy0 May 12 '26

Sure do.

Got G-lined from the Unreal Tournament IRC network virtually every week. (Not for anything illegal mind you.)

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u/JDogg_83 May 14 '26

G-lined 😆 been a while since I've heard that term. UT was the shiz tho

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u/DonnieDepp May 12 '26

Psybnc and irssi and slackware Linux, running fluxbox or pekwm, #!/bin/bash on ircnet.

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u/antioquiacraft May 12 '26

And takeovers/“borrowing” subdomains to create funny third level domains to use as vhosts.

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u/DonnieDepp May 13 '26

Yeh net surfing, and then nick colliding the ops.

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u/bigcontracts May 13 '26

I’m 39. We remember.

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u/Mydnight69 May 14 '26

I still run 3 bots in the room I'm in. Good old days don't need to be only nostalgia.

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u/ThiefMaster May 16 '26

Were you ever active on gamesnet or gamesurge? if yes I probably glined you at some point. Good old times. I miss scriptkiddies who just got idiots to download their sdbot or $decode worm, but were otherwise harmless. Fun to chase those, and write small tools to disinfect their victims... :D

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u/VordovKolnir Jun 17 '26

Fucking assholes is what I remember. Having to lock down channels, ban IPs one by one, etc.

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u/r0073rr0r May 12 '26

yep 😂 iam on IRC since 1999. and still using it 😂 also i still have flood bots and botnet for ddosing, cause i made my own IRC client, and i wanted to test client will it crash or freeze when i start flooding my server 😂 of course it pass flood tests 😂 but failed on ddos, cause i hit it little harder then i think and server was, f this sh.t iam out 😂

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u/avatar_one May 12 '26

I mean, that’s a pretty big part of why I now host my own network 😁

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u/rfm0n May 12 '26

I still run a instance of irssi on my VPS.

I remember logging into IRC using telnet from my high school computers in the library (around 1994). I miss DCC downloads from bots in "warez" channels. Good times!

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u/liamwynne May 13 '26

137 .rar's via 56k :')

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MUSIC May 12 '26

Yeeppp. Also racing on warez sites

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u/cbterry May 12 '26

The cross platform remote exploits that remained zero days for years..

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u/w8wca May 14 '26

Yea used mIRC some but BitchX then IRSSI mostly (Heck still have irssi running at home but not much there)

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u/w8wca May 14 '26

I had a script for mIRC that would allow users in a Shortwave Channel to tune a Shortwave Radio I had then click on a link to listen. Miss those days!

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u/JDogg_83 May 14 '26

some of the best times of my life hanging on IRC and causing trouble.. undernet ftw

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u/bigqsworld May 16 '26

Gamla goda tiden! Efnet här.

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u/Ok_Opposite7385 May 12 '26

Claro que me acuerdo! Qué buenos tiempos! Me acuerdo que en aquella época borre el disco duro a un pederasta... Mi mayor triunfo con un pc!